Word.ws English Dictionary

Third Rome

Third Rome proper noun: a political concept of Moscow as the successor of the Byzantine Empire and the Roman Empire, later extended to Russia in nationalist discourse.

Proper noun

Third Rome

  1. A political concept of Moscow as the successor of the Byzantine Empire and the Roman Empire, later extended to Russia in nationalist discourse.

Origin of Third Rome

Calque of Russian Тре́тий Рим (Trétij Rim).

Questions about Third Rome

What does Third Rome mean?
Third Rome means a political concept of Moscow as the successor of the Byzantine Empire and the Roman Empire, later extended to Russia in nationalist discourse.
What part of speech is Third Rome?
Third Rome is a proper noun.

Words near Third Rome in the dictionary

  1. third rates
  2. third reading
  3. third readings
  4. Third Reich
  5. Third Republic
  6. Third Rome
  7. third screen
  8. third sector
  9. third session
  10. third sessions
  11. third sex

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Third Rome (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: “Third Rome.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/third_rome. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.