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ROMAN NUMERAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A symbol in the old Roman notation; I,V,X,L,C,D,M represent 1,5,10,50,100,500,1000 respectively in Arabic notation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Roman numeral" is a kind of...):
number; numeral (a symbol used to represent a number)
Antonym:
Arabic numeral (one of the symbols 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0)