Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A narrative poem or a prose tale in medieval French literature.
- n. A novel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to ancient or modern Rome, or the people, institutions, or characteristics of Rome.
- Hence Having some attribute deemed especially characteristic of the ancient Romans; noble; distinguished; brave; hardy; patriotic; stern.
- Pertaining to Rome ecclesiastically; of or pertaining to the Church of Rome; papal.
- [lowercase or cap.] Noting a form of letter or type of which the text of this book is an example. It is the form preferred for books and newspapers by the Latin races and by English-speaking peoples. Three series are used conjointly in printing: capitals, which are copies of Old Latin lapidary letters; small capitals, a medieval Italian fashion, first made in type by Aldus Manutius in 1501; and minuscule or lower-case letters, first made in type by Sweinheim and Pannartz at Subiaco in 1465, and afterward, of better form, by Jenson at Venice in 1471.
- Synonyms Roman, Latin. Roman naturally applies to that which is especially associated or connected with the city, Rome; Latin to that which similarly belongs to the district, Latium. Hence, we speak of Roman power, fortitude, administration; the Roman church; the Latin language. Nearly all the use of Latin has grown out of its application to the language: as, Latin grammar; a Latin idiom; the Latin Church. The words are not interchangeable.
- n. A native or an inhabitant of Rome, the capital of Italy, and chief city of the ancient Roman empire.
- n. A person enjoying the freedom or citizenship of ancient Rome.
- n. A member or an adherent of the Church of Rome; a Romanist.
- n. [lowercase] A roman letter or type, in distinction from an italic.
Wiktionary
- adj. of type Upright, as opposed to italic.
- adj. of text, computing Of or related to the Latin alphabet.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans.
- adj. Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.
- adj. Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from
Italic characters. - adj. Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the
Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc. - n. A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.
- n. Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from
Italics .
WordNet 3.0
- n. an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire
- adj. characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions
- adj. relating to or characteristic of people of Rome
- n. a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
- adj. of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome)
- adj. of or relating to or supporting Romanism
- n. a resident of modern Rome
Etymologies
- French, from Old French romans, romance; see romance. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
An Interview with John Dunning, author of Two O'Clock Eastern Wartime
“Does the name of your movie end in roman numerals?”
“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.”
The 'Power of Sound' and the Great Scheme of Things: Wordsworth Listens to Wordsworth
“(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)”
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“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.”
“She received the prestigious Grand Prix du roman from the French Academy in 1987 for her novel, Le Harem.”
“would anyone stand for it had he called roman catholicism "evil"?”
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“YES, she does have that tattoo on her left shoulder of her BFF’s birthday in roman numerals.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘roman’.
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Power to the demonyms!
muscovite, mancunian, oxonian, liverpudlian, damascene, glaswegian, cantabrigian, lyonnais, arkansawyer, sydneysider, haligonian, bay stater and 166 more...
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Capitonyms or capitonyms
Capitonyms are, properly, words which change meaning and sound when they change case. This particular list may also erringly include words which change meaning, but not sound. These are improper. S...
Turkey, turkey, China, china, August, august, Bill, bill, Catholic, catholic, Ionic, ionic and 94 more...
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Reading Materials
Names of printed materials meant to be read - for worship, pleasure, information, recitation; out of curiosity, or, in the case of adverts, to get our attention and sway our spending choices.
lectionary, epistolary, reading-book, novel, Bildungsroman, short story, billboard, advertisement, Sunday comics, obituaries, book of hours, primer and 84 more...
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Capitonyms, capitonyms
Words that change meaning when capitalized
worms, welsh, turkey, time, tangier, tang, slough, seat, scotch, scone, said, russian and 70 more...
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aliko's Words
deli, turkey, bodrum, deniz, sunny, seks, tatil, hava, zeeman, captain, kapitein, kaptan and 256 more...
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Names of People/Animals Real/Fiction ...
dickensian, wagnerian, daliesque, ghandian, kafkaesque, faulknerian, jungian, freudian, elizabethan, charlemagne, shakespearian, chekovian and 467 more...
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European World Systems
europe, colonization, defense, barter, feudalism, gunpowder, technology, guns, domination, lords, monarchs, transition and 250 more...
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faux amis
Words which mean something different in another language.
gift, rat, handy, puff, mist, bald, bad, tripper, qualm, slip, fast, art and 57 more...
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The Gloaming
dragging, burnt, desert, wind, skywalk, doorway, bundle, beard, tired, bittersweet, flux, party and 55 more...
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gamine's list
gefilte fish, basil, malaise, lethe, lumiere, phaedra, ashen, pallid, grey, cake, narcissist, nihilist and 40 more...
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From Byzantium with Love
anna comnena, procopius, secret history, alexiad, urselius, nourished by mani..., alexius, born in the purple, porphyry, faction, greens, blues and 18 more...
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tomduck's geeky words
obfuscate, recursive, idempotent, intractable, integer, spline, tesselate, node, tree, axis, delta, interleave and 68 more...
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out of sorts
being typographical terms
foundry, typography, specimen, point, font, composition, cliché, sort, kern, lead, track, roman and 9 more...
Tweets
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sionnach German for 'novel'. See also Bildungsroman. Jan 9, 2008