roman

1. (typography) One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.countableuncountable

2. (chiefly American typesetting; uncommon outside that) Ellipsis of roman numeral.abbreviationalt-ofcountableellipsisuncountable

3. (archaic, countable) A novel.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."archaiccountable

1. (historical) Of or from the Roman Empire.historical

2. (historical, historiography) Of or from the Byzantine Empire.historical

3. (of type or text) Supporting the characters of the Latin alphabet.

4. (law, colloquial) Used to distinguish a Roman numeral from an Arabic numeral in oral discourse.Examples: "You will find the term defined at the end of Roman one."colloquial

5. (typography) A font that is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic. (See roman font.)

6. (architecture) Of a style characterised by the size and boldness of its round arches and vaults, and having baths, aqueducts, basilicas, amphitheatres, etc.

1. (historical) A native or resident of the Roman Empire.historical

2. (historical, historiography) A native or resident of the Byzantine Empire.Examples: "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..."historical

3. (uncountable) The Roman script.Examples: "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."uncountable

4. (printing, countable) A single letter or character in Roman type.countable

5. (dated) A Roman Catholic.Examples: "‘Is it like―I don’t know―Catholicism? One only spots the other Romans when one’s practised it oneself?’"dated