Meaning of Roman | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A native or resident of Rome.
2. A male given name from Latin recently borrowed from continental Europe.
3. One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.
   countable, uncountable
4. Of or from Rome
5. A native or resident of the Roman Empire.
   historical
6. A surname.
7. Ellipsis of roman numeral.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
8. Of or from the Roman Empire
9. A native or resident of the Byzantine Empire.
   historical
10. A city in Neamț County, Romania.
11. A novel.
    archaic, countable
12. Of or from the Byzantine Empire
13. The Roman script.
    uncountable
14. Of noble countenance but with little facial expression
15. A single letter or character in Roman type.
    countable
16. Supporting the characters of the Latin alphabet
17. A Roman Catholic.
    dated

Equivalents

Examples

“What raises One Last Waltz far above the usual family roman is not just the gimmick of the ancient fable in modern clothes […] but Mordden's language and his sheer joy at telling a story.”

“2014, "Novel and Romance: Etymologies". Heyworth, Gregory; Logan, Peter Melville (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Novel, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 942. →ISBN 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.”

“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...”

“Sahaiʔa May Talbot was born on Feb. 15, 2014. However, on her birth certificate, her name is spelled Sahai'a because the Northwest Territories government only allows the Roman alphabet to be used on official documents.”

“‘Is it like―I don’t know―Catholicism? One only spots the other Romans when one’s practised it oneself?’”

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