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ROME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The leadership of the Roman Catholic Church
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Rome" is a kind of...):
leaders; leadership (the body of people who lead a group)
Holonyms ("Rome" is a part of...):
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
capital of Italy; Eternal City; Italian capital; Roma; Rome
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "Rome"):
Holy See; State of the Vatican City; The Holy See (the smallest sovereign state in the world; the see of the Pope (as the Bishop of Rome); home of the Pope and the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church; achieved independence from Italy in 1929)
Lateran (the site in Rome containing the church of Rome and the Lateran Palace)
Seven Hills of Rome (the hills on which the ancient city of Rome was built)
Sistine Chapel (the private chapel of the popes in Rome; it was built by and named after Sixtus IV in 1473)
Amphitheatrum Flavium; Colosseum (a large amphitheater in Rome whose construction was begun by Vespasian about AD 75 or 80)
Meronyms (members of "Rome"):
Roman (a resident of modern Rome)
Domain member region:
Roman; Romanic (of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome))
tribune ((ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests)
sibyl ((ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet)
procurator ((ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes)
pontifex (a member of the highest council of priests in ancient Rome)
gladiator ((ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat)
centurion ((ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers)
augur; auspex ((ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy)
Bacchus ((classical mythology) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus)
lustrum (a ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census)
catacomb (an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome))
circus ((antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games)
toga virilis ((ancient Rome) a toga worn by a youth as a symbol of manhood and citizenship)
pantheon ((antiquity) a temple to all the gods)
Holonyms ("Rome" is a part of...):
Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)
Context examples:
In old Greece, in old Rome; he flourish in Germany all over, in France, in India, even in the Chernosese; and in China, so far from us in all ways, there even is he, and the peoples fear him at this day.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
An enclave of Rome (Italy).
(Holy See (Vatican City State), NCI Thesaurus)
At last he arrived in Rome, where the Pope had just died, and there was great doubt among the cardinals as to whom they should appoint as his successor.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
That music has taken the vanity out of me as Rome took it out of her, and I won't be a humbug any longer.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
For ten long years I roved about, living first in one capital, then another: sometimes in St. Petersburg; oftener in Paris; occasionally in Rome, Naples, and Florence.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Here, among pillows enough for six, I soon fell asleep in a blissful condition, and dreamed of ancient Rome, Steerforth, and friendship, until the early morning coaches, rumbling out of the archway underneath, made me dream of thunder and the gods.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Returning back to his own vessel, he was charged with neglect of duty, and the ship given to a favourite page of Publicola, the vice-admiral; whereupon he retired to a poor farm at a great distance from Rome, and there ended his life.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
"Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
You shall sojourn at Paris, Rome, and Naples: at Florence, Venice, and Vienna: all the ground I have wandered over shall be re-trodden by you: wherever I stamped my hoof, your sylph's foot shall step also.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He added, that upon the confidence of some merit, the war being at an end, he went to Rome, and solicited at the court of Augustus to be preferred to a greater ship, whose commander had been killed; but, without any regard to his pretensions, it was given to a boy who had never seen the sea, the son of Libertina, who waited on one of the emperor’s mistresses.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
