Roman
Of or from Rome.
Adjective
- Of or from Rome.
- Of or from the Roman Empire.
- Of or from the Byzantine Empire.
- Of noble countenance but with little facial expression.
- "Yes, I feel that I ought; and with me, to feel that I ought to do a thing, is to do it!" added he, looking quite Roman with excess of virtue. - 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Influence of an Invitation”, in...
- Supporting the characters of the Latin alphabet.
- Used to distinguish a Roman numeral from an Arabic numeral in oral discourse.
- You will find the term defined at the end of Roman one.
- A font that is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic. (See roman font.)
- Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church or the Holy See.
- Of a style characterised by the size and boldness of its round arches and vaults, and having baths, aqueducts, basilicas, amphitheatres, etc.
Origin
From Old French Romain, from Latin Rōmānus. By surface analysis, Rom(e) + -an. Doublet of Romano. Displaced native Romish. * In reference to the Byzantine Empire, via the Byzantine Greek endonym Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos).
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Gallo-Roman Greco-Roman non-Roman philoroman pre-Roman pre-Romanesque Roman Bridge Roman Britain Roman candle Roman Catholic Roman charity Romandom Roman-Dutch law Roman Empire Romanesque Roman font Roman gallon Romanhood Romanish Romanism Romanist Romanistics romanize romanji
Proper noun
- A male given name from Latin recently borrowed from continental Europe.
- A surname.
- A city in Neamț County, Romania.
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Noun
- A native or resident of Rome.
- A native or resident of the Roman Empire.
- A native or resident of the Byzantine Empire.
- Kars was the capital of the small Armenian kingdom of Vanand, ruled by Gagik (the same name as the sovereign of Ani) from 1029 to 1064, when he surrendered his kingdom to the Romans. In 1053 it was taken by the...
- The Roman script.
- Sahaiʔa May Talbot was born on Feb. 15, 2014. However, on her birth certificate, her name is spelled Sahai'a because the Northwest Territories government only allows the Roman alphabet to be used on official documents....
- A single letter or character in Roman type.
- A Roman Catholic.
- ‘Is it like―I don’t know―Catholicism? One only spots the other Romans when one’s practised it oneself?’ - 2006, Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, Virago Press, page 151: