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Definition of Roman
Roman

Of or pertaining to Rome, or the Roman people; like or characteristic of Rome, the Roman people, or things done by Romans; as, Roman fortitude; a Roman aqueduct; Roman art.

Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.

Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.

Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.

A native, or permanent resident, of Rome; a citizen of Rome, or one upon whom certain rights and privileges of a Roman citizen were conferred.

Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.

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Roman Quotations

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
Thomas Jefferson

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
Voltaire

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Charles Spurgeon

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.
Joan Rivers

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
Dave Barry

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.
Neale Donald Walsch

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
Garrison Keillor

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Thomas Hobbes

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
Edmond About

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
Hans Kung

Roman Translations

Roman in Dutch is Romeins
Roman in French is Romain
Roman in Portuguese is romano
Roman in Spanish is romano
Roman in Swedish is romersk, romare


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