Pronunciation
Adjective
roman (not comparable)
- (of type, typography) upright, as opposed to italic
- (of text, computing) of or related to the Latin alphabet
Noun
roman (uncountable)
- (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.
Roman
Pronunciation
Adjective
roman
- Of or from Rome.
- Of or from the Roman Empire
- (of type or text) supporting or using a Western European character set.
- (typography) a font which is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic. See roman font.
- Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church or the Holy See.
- (architecture) Of a style characterised by the size and boldness of its round arches and vaults, and having baths, aqueducts, basilicas, amphitheatres, etc.
- French: romain
- German: römisch
- Italian: romano, romana
- Portuguese: romano
- Russian: ри́мский
- Spanish: romano
- German: lateinisch
- Portuguese: romano
- Russian: лати́нский
- Portuguese: corpo redondo
- German: katholisch
- Portuguese: católico
Noun
roman (plural romans)
- A native or resident of Rome.
- (historical) A native or resident of the Roman Empire.
- (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.
- (uncountable) The Roman script.
- (printing, countable) A single letter or character in Roman type.
- (dated) A Roman Catholic.
- French: Romain, Romaine
- German: Römer, Römerin
- Italian: romano, romana
- Portuguese: romano
- Russian: ри́млянин
- Spanish: romano, romana
- German: Lateinisch, ABC
- Portuguese: latino
- Russian: лати́ница
- A male given name recently borrowed from continental Europe.
- Surname
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