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say it: ROH-muhn
roman is an adjective and noun meaning "relating to or characteristic of people of Rome". It carries 7 recorded senses.
relating to or characteristic of people of Rome
“Roman virtues”
“his Roman bearing in adversity”
“a Roman nose”
of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome)
“Roman architecture”
“the old Roman wall”
Rome · antiquity
characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions
an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire
a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for roman come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.