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ROMAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions

Synonyms:

roman; roman letters; roman print; roman type

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("roman" is a kind of...):

proportional font (any font whose different characters have different widths)

Derivation:

Roman (characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions)

Romanic (of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A resident of modern Rome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Roman" is a kind of...):

Italian (a native or inhabitant of Italy)

Holonyms ("Roman" is a member of...):

capital of Italy; Eternal City; Italian capital; Roma; Rome (capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)

Derivation:

Roman (relating to or characteristic of people of Rome)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Roman" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Roman"):

palatine (any of various important officials in ancient Rome)

Instance hyponyms:

Agrippina; Agrippina the Elder (granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger (14 BC - AD 33))

Agrippina; Agrippina the Younger (wife who poisoned Claudius after her son Nero was declared heir and who was then put to death by Nero)

Holonyms ("Roman" is a member of...):

Roman Empire (an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome)

Derivation:

Romanic (of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome))

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome)

Example:

the old Roman wall

Synonyms:

Roman; Romanic

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)

Domain region:

capital of Italy; Eternal City; Italian capital; Roma; Rome (capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)

Pertainym:

Rome (capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or characteristic of people of Rome

Example:

a Roman nose

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Roman (a resident of modern Rome)

Derivation:

Roman (a resident of modern Rome)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Of or relating to or supporting Romanism

Example:

the Roman Catholic Church

Synonyms:

papist; papistic; papistical; popish; R.C.; Roman; Roman Catholic; Romanist; romish

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Romanism (the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

roman (a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions)

Derivation:

roman (a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I keep it and rear it rather on the Roman Catholic principle of expiating numerous sins, great or small, by one good work.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was a Roman Catholic; and I believe her confessor confirmed the idea which she had conceived.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Led by researchers at the University of Maryland's National-Socio Environmental Synthesis Center, the team found that the plague's effects, sometimes attributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, may have been exaggerated.

(Justinianic plague not a landmark pandemic?, National Science Foundation)

The rose or flesh-colored nose has a slightly convex shape called "Roman nose."

(Ibizan Hound, NCI Thesaurus)

According to the researchers, sacrifice and mummification of sacred ibises was common in Egypt from about 664 b.c.e. to 250 c.e., from the twenty-sixth dynasty into the early period of Roman Egypt.

(Ancient Egyptians collected wild ibis birds for sacrifice, says study, Wikinews)

Also called Roman chamomile.

(English chamomile, NCI Dictionary)

The only thing I found was a great heap of gold in one corner—gold of all kinds, Roman, and British, and Austrian, and Hungarian, and Greek and Turkish money, covered with a film of dust, as though it had lain long in the ground.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mrs. Barclay was, it appears, a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and had interested herself very much in the establishment of the Guild of St. George, which was formed in connection with the Watt Street Chapel for the purpose of supplying the poor with cast-off clothing.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Intense hurricanes possibly more powerful than any storms New England has experienced in recorded history frequently pounded the region during the first millennium, from the peak of the Roman Empire to the height of the Middle Ages.

(Monster hurricanes struck U.S. Northeast during prehistoric periods of ocean warming, NSF)

A courtesy title for a person who supervises a number of local churches or a diocese, being in the Greek, Roman Catholic, Anglican, and other churches a member of the highest order of the ministry.

(Bishop, NCI Thesaurus)