Definitions for bezants

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bezants bez·ant

Spelling: [bez-uh nt, bih-zant]

IPA: /ˈbɛz ənt, bɪˈzænt/

Bezants is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 187 anagrams from letters in bezants (abenstz).

Definitions for bezants

noun

1. Also, bezzant. the gold solidus of the Byzantine Empire, widely circulated in the Middle Ages.
2. Also, byzant. (in Romanesque architecture) any of a number of disklike ornaments, similar in form to the classical patera, used especially on the faces of archivolts.

Origin of bezants

1150-1200; Middle English besant Old French Latin byzantius (nummus) Byzantine (coin)

Examples for bezants

There were moneys of various nations, even to the Spanish pistole and Turkish bezant.

She made no reply, but took from a pocket a bezant, and contrived to throw its yellow gleam in the sentinel's eyes.

A bezant was a gold coin, originally struck at Byzantium, whence the name.

At Samara we find Mr. bezant, one of our consignees, just recovering from the typhus which was contracted in his relief work.