Roman

  1. Adjective.  Of or from Rome.
  2. Adjective.  Of or from the Roman Empire.
  3. Adjective.  (context, of type or text) supporting or using a Western European character set.
  4. Adjective.  Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church or the Holy See.
  5. Noun.  A native or resident of Rome.
  6. Noun.  A native or resident of the Roman Empire.
  7. Noun.  (legal, colloquial) (non-gloss definition, Used to distinguish a Roman numeral from an Arabic numeral in oral discourse.) .
  8. Noun.  The Roman script.
  9. Proper noun.  (given name, male) recently borrowed from continental Europe.
  10. Adjective.  (context, of type) Upright, as opposed to italic.
  11. Adjective.  (context, of text) Of or related to the Latin alphabet.

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