ROMULUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

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

1. (Roman mythology) founder of Rome; suckled with his twin brother Remus by a wolf after their parents (Mars and Rhea Silvia) abandoned them; Romulus killed Remus in an argument over the building of Rome

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

• ROMULUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Roman mythology) founder of Rome; suckled with his twin brother Remus by a wolf after their parents (Mars and Rhea Silvia) abandoned them; Romulus killed Remus in an argument over the building of Rome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain category:

Roman mythology (the mythology of the ancient Romans)

 Context examples 

Induced by these feelings, I was of course led to admire peaceable lawgivers, Numa, Solon, and Lycurgus, in preference to Romulus and Theseus.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Eminent herpetologist and co-author of the study Romulus Whitaker from the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and Centre for Herpetology, Tamil Nadu state, tells that India needs either region-specific antivenom or antivenom made with venoms pooled from different regions and from the species not yet used in antivenom production.”

(‘India needs region-specific snakebite antivenoms’, SciDev.Net)