constantinople

NOUN /,kɑnstæn'tənoʊpəl/
14 LETTERS · 5 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH C

constantinople is a valid 14-letter word worth 18 points in Scrabble and 24 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
C3O1N1S1T1A1N1T1I1N1O1P3L1E1
3 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 1 + 1 =18 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 36TRIPLE WORD → 54
MEANING

What does constantinople mean?

NOUN · 5 SENSES
1

The second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed.

2

The fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic.

3

The sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human.

4

The council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches.

BROADER
5

The largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church.