byzantine : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the style of architecture developed in the Byzantine Empire developed after the 5th century; massive domes with square bases and round arches and spires and much use of mosaics
  

WordNet

• noun the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire
  Eastern Church.
  

WordNet

• the Eastern or Greek church, as distinguished from the Western or Roman or Latin church.See under Greek.

Webster 1913

• noun a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395
  Byzantium; Eastern Roman Empire.
  

WordNet

• the Eastern Roman or Greek empire from A.D. 364 or A.D. 395 to the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, A.D. 1453.

Webster 1913

• noun the Greek language from about 600 to 1200 AD
  Medieval Greek; Middle Greek.
  

WordNet

• historians and writers (Zonaras, Procopius, etc.) who lived in the Byzantine empire. P. Cyc.

Webster 1913

• (Arch.), a style of architecture developed in the Byzantine empire.

Webster 1913