roman
IPA: rˈoʊmʌn
noun
- (typography) One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.
- (archaic) A novel.
- A native or resident of Rome.
- (historical) A native or resident of the Roman Empire.
- (uncountable) The Roman script.
- (printing, countable) A single letter or character in Roman type.
- (dated) A Roman Catholic.
- A male given name from Latin recently borrowed from continental Europe.
- A surname.
- A city in Neamț, Romania
adjective
- (of type, typography) upright, as opposed to italic.
- (of text, computing) of or related to the Latin alphabet.
- Of or from Rome.
- Of or from the Roman Empire.
- Of noble countenance but with little facial expression.
- (of type or text) Supporting the characters of the Latin alphabet.
- (law, colloquial) Used to distinguish a Roman numeral from an Arabic numeral in oral discourse.
- (typography) 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.
- (architecture) Of a style characterised by the size and boldness of its round arches and vaults, and having baths, aqueducts, basilicas, amphitheatres, etc.
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Examples of "roman" in Sentences
- The town was occupied by the Romans.
- Neptune is the roman God of the Sea.
- Aurora was the Roman Goddess of the dawn.
- It is a solemnity in the Roman Catholic Calendar.
- It is a solemnity in the Roman Catholic ceremony.
- The Romans named the planet after the Roman god Jupiter.
- It is a papyrus manuscript of the Epistle to the Romans.
- Another problem is with the inconsistency of the romanizations.
- For the Roman successors of the drachma, see Roman provincial coins.
- The Roman line continued uninterrupted to rule the Eastern Roman Empire.
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