Roman
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Roman/ˈrəʊmən/
▶adjective
- 1 relating to ancient Rome, its empire, or people.
- 2 relating to medieval or modern Rome.
- 3 denoting the alphabet used for writing Latin, English, and most European languages, developed in ancient Rome.
- 4 (roman) (of type) of a plain upright kind used in ordinary print, especially as distinguished from italic and Gothic.
- 1 an inhabitant of ancient or modern Rome.
- 2 (roman) roman type.
'Roman' also found in these Oxford entries:
act of contrition
- Aesculapian
- age of reason
- ambrosia
- amphora
- ampulla
- angelus
- annates
- anoint
- apostolic succession
- areology
- as
- ash
- assumption
- atrium
- August
- Augustan
- aureus
- bacchanal
- Bacchanalia
- barbarian
- beatification
- beatify
- Bildungsroman
- biretta
- black mass
- blessed
- book of hours
- breviary
- Briton
- bugger
- C
- caduceus
- Caesar
- caldarium
- calends
- candid
- canon
- canon
- canonize
- cap
- cardinal
- catechesis
- catechism
- catholic
- Celt
- centurion
- century
- cereal
- charismatic movement
