roman

IPA: rˈoʊmʌn

(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

(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.

Examples of "roman" in Sentences

Does the name of your movie end in roman numerals?
would anyone stand for it had he called roman catholicism "evil"?
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
YES, she does have that tattoo on her left shoulder of her BFF’s birthday in roman numerals.
She received the prestigious Grand Prix du roman from the French Academy in 1987 for her novel, Le Harem.
Ode, is a long lyric in roman-numbered stanzas; at 224 lines and fourteen parts it is slightly longer but on the same order of magnitude as the Ode.
I imagine back in roman times, the avant gard of street theater goers were blown away when the actors first presented in front of a painted backdrop curtain.
I never intended to write what they call a roman-a-clef, or one of those books where real celebrities of the past do walk-ons and help the hero solve the mystery.
In French, the word roman refers to those texts in prose which for the first time after the Middle Ages used the new language spoken by the people, a Romance language.
For what is worth, when you apply to for a US visa, you have to write down your name both in roman alphabet and in your original alphabet or scrip, be it arabic, chinese, etc.