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byzant

/bɪˈzænt/

byzant is the alternative form of bezant.

Meaning of bezant

Noun

bezant (plural bezants)

  1. A coin made of gold or silver, minted at Byzantium and used in currency throughout mediaeval Europe.
    Synonyms:
    solidus
  2. A roundel or (that is, a golden circle), the heraldic representation of a gold coin.
    • One and All is the motto of the County of Cornwall, used below the coat-of-arms, which is a shield embracing fifteen bezants, or golden roundels, on a black ground; [...].1941 December, “The Why and the Wherefore: Cornish names of G.W.R. locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 575

Noun capitalized: Byzant

Byzant

  1. Alternative letter-case form of byzant.

Forms of byzant

pluralbyzants

Words that rhyme with byzant

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Questions about byzant

What is byzant the alternative form of?
Byzant is the alternative form of bezant.
What part of speech is byzant?
Byzant is a noun.
How do you pronounce byzant?
Byzant is pronounced /bɪˈzænt/.
What is the plural of byzant?
The plural of byzant is byzants.

Words near byzant in the dictionary

  1. bywork
  2. byworks
  3. Byz
  4. byzaanchies
  5. byzaanchy
  6. byzant
  7. Byzantiac
  8. Byzantian
  9. Byzantians
  10. byzantievite
  11. byzantine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: byzant (page history and authors); Byzant (page history and authors); bezant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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