ROMANS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Romans mean? 

• ROMANS (noun)
  The noun ROMANS has 1 sense:

1. a New Testament book containing an exposition of the doctrines of Saint Paul; written in AD 58

  Familiarity information: ROMANS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROMANS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A New Testament book containing an exposition of the doctrines of Saint Paul; written in AD 58

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans; Epistle to the Romans; Romans

Instance hypernyms:

Epistle (a book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle)

Holonyms ("Romans" is a part of...):

New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)

 Context examples 

The Romans of old were a very wise people, yet, certes, they placed their faith in such matters.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To have all those noble Romans alive before me, and walking in and out for my entertainment, instead of being the stern taskmasters they had been at school, was a most novel and delightful effect.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous genius and mental activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early Romans—of their subsequent degenerating—of the decline of that mighty empire, of chivalry, Christianity, and kings.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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)