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CONSTANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The council in 1414-1418 that succeeded in ending the Great Schism in the Roman Catholic Church
Synonyms:
Constance; Council of Constance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Constance" is a kind of...):
council ((Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A lake in southeastern Germany on the northern side of the Swiss Alps; forms part of the Rhine River
Synonyms:
Bodensee; Constance; Lake Constance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)
Holonyms ("Constance" is a part of...):
Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)
