Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to ancient or modern Rome or its people or culture.
- adjective Of or relating to the Roman Empire.
- adjective Of, relating to, or composed in the Latin language.
- adjective Of or using the Latin alphabet.
- adjective Of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
- adjective Of or being an architectural style developed by the ancient Romans and characterized by the round arch as chief structural element, the vault, concrete masonry construction, and classical ornamentation.
- adjective Of or being a typestyle characterized by upright letters having serifs and vertical lines thicker than horizontal lines.
- noun A native, inhabitant, or citizen of ancient or modern Rome.
- noun The Italian language as spoken in Rome.
- noun One belonging to the Roman Catholic Church.
- noun Roman print or typestyle.
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- adjective Of or from
Rome . - adjective Of or from the Roman Empire
- adjective of type or text supporting or using a Western European
character set. - adjective Of or pertaining to the
Roman Catholic Church or theHoly See . - noun A native or resident of
Rome . - noun A native or resident of the
Roman Empire - noun law, colloquial Used to distinguish a
Roman numeral from anArabic numeral in oral discourse. - noun The Roman script
- proper noun A male
given name recently borrowed from continental Europe.
Etymologies
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· Pantiles and Roman tiles The most common products are, however, the Pantile and the Roman Tile.
Chapter 8 1992
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For the Roman occupation of Scotland see Haverfield in _Antonine Wall Report_ (1899); J. Macdonald, _Roman Stones in Hunterian Mus. _ (1897); and, though an older work, Stuart's _Caledonia Romana_ (1852).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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It expresses that view of the gradual development and transformation of the Roman Empire with which Mr. Belloc would replace the gloomy view of Gibbon and the exaggerated horrors, to take a conspicuous but not now important example, of Charles Kingsley's _Roman and Teuton_.
Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work C. Creighton Mandell 1922
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We have seen why these auxiliary forces continued to increase in importance within the Roman Army, and we have seen how it was only as Roman soldiers, and as part of the regular forces of civilization, that they had that importance, or that their officers and generals, acting as _Roman_ officers and generals, could play the part they did.
Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" Hilaire Belloc 1911
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On the various kinds of imprisonment in Roman law see Ramsay's _Roman
The Life of St. Paul James Stalker 1887
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But one of the many gains for the history of Roman religion which have recently been secured -- even since the publication of my _Roman
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Surely that Roman work (I mean _Roman_ in conception and performance), which says to the ocean, "Thus far shalt thou come, and no further," and is obeyed, is not less sublime and poetical than the angry waves which vainly break beneath it.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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_Epistle XXV_, was from the Roman point of view, as Dill remarks (_Roman
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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MAXIMILIAN I, who first took the title Roman Emperor elect.
g. The German Empire 2001
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[1] When I apply the term Roman here and elsewhere to the inhabitants of the Italian towns, I wish to indicate the indigenous
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866
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