English
roman
see also: Roman
Etymology

From Roman.

Pronunciation Adjective

roman (not comparable)

  1. (of type, typography) upright, as opposed to italic.
    Antonyms: italic, italicised, italicized, oblique, slanted, sloped
  2. (of text, typesetting, computing) of or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.
    Coordinate terms: Arabic, arabic
Noun

roman (uncountable)

  1. (typography) One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.
  2. (dated, uncommon, chiefly American typesetting) Ellipsis of roman numeral
    Coordinate term: arabic
  3. (archaic) A novel.
    • 2014, "Novel and Romance: Etymologies ↗". Heyworth, Gregory; Logan, Peter Melville (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Novel ↗, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 942. ISBN 978-1118723890
      Samuel Johnson, writing in his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), [defined] "novel [as] a small tale, generally of love." To modern sensibilities, Johnson's novel resembles more closely the novella in dimension and the romance in substance. [...] [T]he term romance, or roman, once interchangeable with novel in English, retains the meaning of novel in Germany, France, Russia, and most of Europe, while in the anglophone world it has been demoted to frivolity.
Roman
Etymology

From Old French Romain, from Latin Rōmānus.

Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈɹəʊ.mən/
  • (America) enPR: rōmən, IPA: /ˈɹoʊ.mən/
Adjective

roman

  1. Of or from Rome.
  2. (historical) Of or from the Roman Empire.
  3. (historical, historiography) Of or from the Byzantine Empire.
  4. Of noble countenance but with little facial expression.
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Influence of an Invitation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC ↗, page 16 ↗:
      "Yes, I feel that I ought; and with me, to feel that I ought to do a thing, is to do it!" added he, looking quite Roman with excess of virtue.
  5. (of type or text) Supporting the characters of the Latin alphabet.
  6. (law, colloquial) Used to distinguish a Roman numeral from an Arabic numeral in oral discourse.
    You will find the term defined at the end of Roman one.
  7. (typography) A font that is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic. (See roman font.)
  8. Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church or the Holy See.
  9. (architecture) Of a style characterised by the size and boldness of its round arches and vaults, and having baths, aqueducts, basilicas, amphitheatres, etc.
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  • French: romain
  • Portuguese: corpo redondo
Translations Noun

roman (plural romans)

  1. A native or resident of Rome.
  2. (historical) A native or resident of the Roman Empire.
  3. (historical, historiography) A native or resident of the Byzantine Empire.
    • 2010, John Wortley trans. John Skylitzes as A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057, p. 442, n. 192 ↗:
      Kars was the capital of the small Armenian kingdom of Vanand, ruled by Gagik (the same name as the sovereign of Ani) from 1029 to 1064, when he surrendered his kingdom to the Romans. In 1053 it was taken by the Seljoukids, probably under the command of Qutlumus...
  4. (uncountable) The Roman script.
  5. (printing, countable) A single letter or character in Roman type.
  6. (dated) A Roman Catholic.
Synonyms Translations Translations Translations Proper noun
  1. A male given name recently borrowed from continental Europe.
  2. Surname.
  3. A city in Neamț, Romania
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