Usually means: Complex, intricate, and often ornate.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word byzantine:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Byzantine: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Byzantine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Byzantine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Byzantine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Byzantine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Byzantine, byzantine: Wordnik
  7. byzantine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Byzantine, byzantine: Wiktionary
  9. Byzantine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Byzantine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Byzantine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Byzantine, byzantine: Dictionary.com
  13. Byzantine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Byzantine (album), Byzantine (band), Byzantine (disambiguation), Byzantine (video game), Byzantine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Byzantine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. byzantine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Byzantine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. byzantine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. byzantine: Free Dictionary
  20. byzantine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Byzantine, byzantine: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. Byzantine: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. Byzantine: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. Byzantine: Rhymezone

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. byzantine: mosaic glossary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Byzantine: Encyclopedia
  2. Byzantine: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. byzantine: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Byzantine: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See byzantines as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to Byzantium.
adjective:  (history) Belonging to the civilization of the Eastern Roman Empire between 331, when its capital was moved to Constantinople, and 1453, when that capital was conquered by the Turks and ultimately renamed Istanbul.
adjective:  (architecture) Of a style of architecture prevalent in the Eastern Empire down to 1453, marked by the round arch springing from columns or piers, the dome supported upon pendentives, capitals elaborately sculptured, mosaic or other encrustations, etc.
adjective:  (figurative, often lower-case) Overly complex or intricate, especially of bureaucracy.
adjective:  (figurative, often lower-case) Of a devious, usually stealthy, manner or practice.
adjective:  (Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism) Of or relating to the Byzantine Rite or any of the many Eastern Orthodox churches and Greek Catholic churches that use this rite for their liturgical celebrations.
noun:  (historical) A native of Byzantium (modern-day Istanbul) or of the Byzantine empire
noun:  A dark, metallic shade of violet.
noun:  (historical) A byzant (coin).
noun:  (numismatics) Alternative form of byzantine (coin) [(historical) A byzant (coin).]
adjective:  Alternative letter-case form of Byzantine (figurative senses only) [Of or pertaining to Byzantium.]

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