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ROMAN EMPIRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
empire; imperium (the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised)
Meronyms (parts of "Roman Empire"):
Byzantine Empire; Byzantium; Eastern Roman Empire (a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395)
Western Empire; Western Roman Empire (the western part after the Roman Empire was divided in 395; it lasted only until 476)
Meronyms (members of "Roman Empire"):
Roman (an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire)
Domain member region:
ancients (people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe))
prefecture (the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire))
Holonyms ("Roman Empire" is a part of...):
Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)
Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)
Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)
