constantine meaning and definition

CONSTANTINE noun

Definition of Constantine (noun)

1. Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)
   • synonyms: Constantine I, Constantine the Great, Flavius Valerius Constantinus
2. a walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers; was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by Constantine I