ROMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Roman mean? 

• ROMAN (noun)
  The noun ROMAN has 3 senses:

1. a resident of modern Rome

2. an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire

3. a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions

  Familiarity information: ROMAN used as a noun is uncommon.

• ROMAN (adjective)
  The adjective ROMAN has 4 senses:

1. relating to or characteristic of people of Rome

2. of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome)

3. characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions

4. of or relating to or supporting Romanism

  Familiarity information: ROMAN used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A resident of modern Rome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Roman" is a kind of...):

Italian (a native or inhabitant of Italy)

Holonyms ("Roman" is a member of...):

capital of Italy; Eternal City; Italian capital; Roma; Rome (capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)

Derivation:

Roman (relating to or characteristic of people of Rome)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Roman" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Roman"):

palatine (any of various important officials in ancient Rome)

Instance hyponyms:

Agrippina; Agrippina the Elder (granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula and Agrippina the Younger (14 BC - AD 33))

Agrippina; Agrippina the Younger (wife who poisoned Claudius after her son Nero was declared heir and who was then put to death by Nero)

Holonyms ("Roman" is a member of...):

Roman Empire (an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome)

Derivation:

Romanic (of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

roman; roman letters; roman print; roman type

Hypernyms ("roman" is a kind of...):

proportional font (any font whose different characters have different widths)

Derivation:

Roman (characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions)

Romanic (of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome))

• ROMAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or characteristic of people of Rome

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

a Roman nose

Pertainym:

Roman (a resident of modern Rome)

Derivation:

Roman (a resident of modern Rome)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Roman; Romanic

Context example:

the old Roman wall

Domain category:

antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)

Domain region:

capital of Italy; Eternal City; Italian capital; Roma; Rome (capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)

Pertainym:

Rome (capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

roman (a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions)

Derivation:

roman (a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Of or relating to or supporting Romanism

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

papist; papistic; papistical; popish; R.C.; Roman; Roman Catholic; Romanist; romish

Context example:

the Roman Catholic Church

Pertainym:

Romanism (the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome)

 Context examples 

This youth is a scholar from Cambrig, where men are wont to be blown out by a little knowledge, and lose the use of their hands in learning the laws of the Romans.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Four of them carried him shoulder high, and he went like a Roman emperor.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw most of the first Roman emperors.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

There was an old Roman bath in those days at the bottom of one of the streets out of the Strand—it may be there still—in which I have had many a cold plunge.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A slave, he had read, had risen to the Roman purple.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Gallons of various sizes (predominantly in the range of 3.5 - 4.75 liters) have been used in different countries since Roman times.

(Gallon, NCI Thesaurus)

It might have been Grecian, it might have been Roman, only it was a shade too massive for the one, a shade too delicate for the other.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“Yes,” added the other; “and of the Roman emperors as low as Severus; besides a great deal of the heathen mythology, and all the metals, semi-metals, planets, and distinguished philosophers.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The rules of the International Astronomical Union require that the moons of Neptune are named after Greek and Roman mythology of the undersea world.

(Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon, NASA)

Two types are German chamomile and Roman or English chamomile.

(Chamomile, NCI Dictionary)