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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of romanize.
  • adjective written in the Latin alphabet

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Examples

  • For what it's worth, I've seen relatives with the same family name romanized three different ways, due to just going along with whatever the official wrote for them.

    Swearing and Clueless Taiwan Judges Michael Turton 2007

  • Thankfully, these languages are typically 'romanized' as well, which means the Roman alphabet is used to represent the sounds of the language to the best possible degree.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • my jewish parents came from germany and alsace to america in the 1850s. my understanding is that the jews were allowed into those areas because they were roman citizens, after having been "romanized"...did the roman empire have good qualities? were the jews protected by the romans as

    They make a desert and call it peace 2006

  • It is partly for this reason that I have . . . retained the old system of romanized spellings as opposed to the more recently introduced pinyin, and partly in order to acknowledge that, whatever lens it may be viewed through, the walled city that was 'Peking' in 1954 really is not the same city as the 'Beijing' of the early twenty-first century.

    A quick peek behind China's wall Post 2011

  • It is partly for this reason that I have . . . retained the old system of romanized spellings as opposed to the more recently introduced pinyin, and partly in order to acknowledge that, whatever lens it may be viewed through, the walled city that was 'Peking' in 1954 really is not the same city as the 'Beijing' of the early twenty-first century.

    A quick peek behind China's wall Post 2011

  • The 74-year-old's home temple is Louguantai, in Shaanxi province, where Daoism's spiritual founder, Laozi, dictated the religion's main text, the Tao Te Ching (also romanized as Daodejing) before ascending to immortality.

    China Real Time Report 2010

  • The 74-year-old's home temple is Louguantai, in Shaanxi province, where Daoism's spiritual founder, Laozi, dictated the religion's main text, the Tao Te Ching (also romanized as Daodejing) before ascending to immortality.

    China Real Time Report 2010

  • The 74-year-old's home temple is Louguantai, in Shaanxi province, where Daoism's spiritual founder, Laozi, dictated the religion's main text, the Tao Te Ching (also romanized as Daodejing) before ascending to immortality.

    China Real Time Report 2010

  • The 74-year-old's home temple is Louguantai, in Shaanxi province, where Daoism's spiritual founder, Laozi, dictated the religion's main text, the Tao Te Ching (also romanized as Daodejing) before ascending to immortality.

    China Real Time Report 2010

  • He tracked over to the kanji name of the family, then the romanized version…

    A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009

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