Constance

name

name ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    the council in 1414-1418 that succeeded in ending the Great Schism in the Roman Catholic Church wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name from Latin.

    "And forth she sailed the ocean salt and rude. / O Constance, full of sweet solicitude, / O Emperor's daughter of a mighty realm, / He that is Lord of Fortune guide thy helm!"

  2. 2
    A surname.
  3. 3
    Alternative form of Konstanz, Germany, probably with influence from French Constance. alt-of, alternative
  4. 4
    An unincorporated community in Boone County, Kentucky, United States.
  5. 5
    A former unincorporated community in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States.

Synonyms

All synonyms
council of constancecouncil of constancekonstanzlake constance

Example

More examples

"Creationists were in my prayers today when I saw a program about a German vineyard near Lake Constance. They said the soil was very rich, created by a volcano 15 million years ago."

Etymology

A medieval form of the Latin Constantia from a word meaning constancy.

More for "constance"

SynonymsSentencesPronunciationTranslate

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciationBrowse writing guides

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.