Word.ws English Dictionary

Constance

Constance proper noun: a female given name from Latin. Also the alternative form of Konstanz.

Proper noun

Constance

  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!1951, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Man of the Law's Tale”, in Nevill Coghill, transl., The Canterbury Tales: Translated into Modern English (Penguin Classics), Penguin Books, published 1977
    • My name is Constance; I was Geffrey's wife; / Young Arthur is my son, and he is lost: / I am not mad:—I would to heaven I were!, Scene IV
  2. A surname.
  3. An unincorporated community in Boone County, Kentucky, United States.
  4. A former unincorporated community in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States.

Also used as

Constance is also the alternative form of Konstanz.

Origin of Constance

Derived from Latin Cōnstantia. Doublet of Constantia.

Phrases with Constance

Questions about Constance

What does Constance mean?
Constance means a female given name from Latin.
What part of speech is Constance?
Constance is a proper noun.

Words near Constance in the dictionary

  1. constabulary
  2. constabulatories
  3. constabulatory
  4. constacyclic
  5. constaff
  6. Constance
  7. constancie
  8. constancies
  9. Constancio
  10. Constancios
  11. constancy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Constance (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Constance.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/constance. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.