<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A port in northwestern Turkey, on both sides of the Bosporus: built by Constantine I on the site of ancient Byzantium; capital of the Eastern Roman Empire and of the Ottoman Empire; capital removed to Ankara 1923.</li><li>The people traditionally descended from the Biblical Jacob; the Hebrew or Jewish people.</li><li>(In the Bible) A name given to Jacob after he had wrestled with an angel.</li><li>The northern kingdom of the ancient Hebrews, including 10 of the 12 tribes, sometimes called by the name of the chief tribe, Ephraim: Samaria.</li><li>A group considered by its members or by others as God's chosen people.</li><li>A male given name.</li></ul>