Constance
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- proper noun
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Lago de Constanza
- The annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting brings a wealth of scientific minds to the shores of Lake Constance.
- Lake Constance
Examples
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When YES played an open-air concert high on top of a mountain near Lake Constance, Jon explained to the audience that Hesse had once lived somewhere down there near the lake.
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In some ways, the architect duo of Stefanie and Stephan Eberding have followed the tradition of avant-garde flexibility projects of Classic Moderne with their experimental living building at Berlingen on Lake Constance.
Blog text (21) -
The White Horse Hotel, Lake Constance.
Fiction book (1999) -
This exclusive lakeside property is right on the north bank of Lake Constance and is enhanced by its particular position between a sailing school with its marina and the beach houses of the bank development.
Blog text (21) -
She saw a fine drawing of an imposing building, lawns running down to a pier, people strolling, sailboats scattered on blue waves, Lake Constance as smooth and clear as expensive paper could render it.
Fiction book (1999) -
This exclusive lakeside property is right on the north bank of Lake Constance.
Synonyms
A large lake on the border of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria where the Rhine flows
A large lake in central Europe on the border between Germany, Switzerland and Austria
Compounds
A meeting of Roman Catholic leaders from 1414 to 1418 that ended a long split over the pope
A large lake on the border of Germany, Switzerland, and Austria where the Rhine flows
Surface Forms
Etymology
Constance (the lake) is named for the town of Constance on its shore, and that town's name comes from Latin Constantia and constans, meaning 'standing firm'. The same root is in constant, so you can remember the lake by thinking of the town name meaning 'steady' or 'unchanging'.