roman

Definition of roman in Turkish Turkish dictionary: (Osmanlı Dönemi) Eski Roma devletinin diline de Roman denirdi.Edebsizlenmiş edeb, "müsekkin hem münevvim" hakiki fayda vermez. Tek bir ilâcı bulmuş o da romanları imiş.Kitab gibi bir hayy-ı meyyit, sinema gibi bir müteharrik emvat! Meyyit hayat veremez...Hem tiyatro gibi tenasuhvari, mâzi denilen geniş kabrin hortlakları gibi şu üç nevi romanları ile hiç de utanmaz. Beşerin ağzına yalancı bir dil koymuş. Hem insanın yüzüne fâsık bir göz takmış. Dünyaya bir alüfte; (Osmanlı Dönemi) Hayalî veya hakiki, kitap halinde yazılmış büyük hikâye; Çingene; İnsanın veya çevrenin karakterlerini, göreneklerini inceleyen, serüvenlerini anlatan, duygu ve tutkularını çözümleyen, kurmaca veya gerçek olaylara dayanan uzun edebî tür: "Hikâyem tıpkı hayalî, hissî bir roman kadar gariptir diye başladı."- Ö. Seyfettin; Bu türde yazılmış eser; Romen
Roman dilleri: Latinceden türemiş yaşayan diller
roman polanski: Tiksinti, Tess, Rosemary'nin Bebeği, Piyanist gibi filmleriyle tanınmış Polonyalı sinema yönetmeni
roman polanskı: Tess, Amadeus, Rosemary'nin Bebeği, Piyanist gibi filmleriyle tanınmış Polonyalı sinema yönetmeni
çizgi roman: Konuyu ve olaylar zincirini kesintisiz olarak resimleme yöntemiyle okuyucuya sunan anlatım tarzı
nehir roman: bakınız: ırmak roman
polisiye roman: Konusunu polisin görev alanına giren olaylardan seçen roman
resimli roman: Konusu bir dizi resimle anlatılan roman veya hikâye
romans: Sekiz hecelik dizelerden oluşmuş bir İspanyol şiir türü
romans: Şarkı türünde ve piyano için hazırlanmış, genellikle kıtalar biçiminde beste
romans: Sekiz hecelik dizelerden oluşmuş bir İspanyol şiir türü. Şarkı türünde ve piyano için hazırlanmış, genellikle kıtalar biçiminde beste
romans: Bir ispanyol şiir türü
tarihi roman: Başlıca kişileri ve olayları tarihten alınan roman
tarihsel roman: bakınız: tarihî roman
tefrika roman: Süreli yayınlarda her gün bir bölümü yayımlanan roman
ırmak roman: Bir olayın, geniş bir zaman diliminde geçtiği bir çağı, bir toplumun geniş bir görünümünü veren çok uzun roman, nehir roman

English - English

Definition of roman in English English dictionary: Of or from the Roman Empire; Used to distinguish a Roman numeral from an Arabic numeral in oral discourse
You will find the term defined at the end of Roman one.; A male given name recently borrowed from continental Europe; The Roman script; Roman Catholic; Of or from Rome; A native or resident of the Roman Empire; A native or resident of Rome; Supporting or using a Western European character set; A serifed style of typeface; Upright, as opposed to italic; {a} relating to Rome or the Romans; {n} a native or inhabitant of Rome; Roman means related to or connected with ancient Rome and its empire. the fall of the Roman Empire. A Roman was a citizen of ancient Rome or its empire. When they conquered Britain, the Romans brought this custom with them; {i} male first name; {i} member of the Roman Catholic Church; citizen of ancient or modern Rome; Roman means related to or connected with modern Rome. a Roman hotel room. A Roman is someone who lives in or comes from Rome. soccer-mad Romans. the ordinary style of printing that uses small upright letters, like the style used for printing these words font, italics italics. Typeface used most widely in Western typography, the general term for the type of this book's text. Characterized by simple, unembellished shapes, roman was developed by 15th-century printers as an alternative to the heavy-bodied, spiky black letter script. Models for a new type that was easier to cut and read were found in the scriptoria, where scribes, probably at the urging of humanist scholars, were experimenting with a letter face they believed had been used in ancient Rome. Historians now trace its ancestry instead to the letter forms developed for Charlemagne's decrees by Alcuin in the 9th century. Within a century, roman had superseded all other typefaces throughout Europe; the sole exception was Germany, where black letter continued to hold sway into the 20th century. Africa Roman Greco Roman wrestling Holy Roman Empire Jakobson Roman Osipovich Roman alphabet The Roman Observer Roman Peace Polanski Roman roman à clef Roman Catholicism Roman Curia Roman de la Rose Roman law Roman mythology Roman numerals Roman question Roman religion Roman Republic and Empire Deeds of the Romans; {s} Catholic; pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; pertaining to ancient or modern Rome; pertaining to the culture and art of ancient Rome; Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; in distinction from Italics; Upright; erect; said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters; The unmodified version of a typeface, with no bold or italics applied; Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion; A typeface, widely used in printing It is characterised by the presence of serifs (see below) on the letters, and by the vertical lines being slightly thicker than the horizontal lines; A type face or type style in which the characters are upright Compare italic and oblique; An upright, normal-weight typeface, whether serif or sans-serif, oldstyle or modern; an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire; CITIZEN OF ROMAN EMPIRE Rome was the seat of world power Rome had conquered the known world at the time of Christ A Roman citizen had rights in any of its conquered providences For example, a roman citizen had rights in Judea because it was a providence of Rome but a Judean citizen who was not a Roman did not have the same rights as a Roman Citizen This gave rise to many issues of class envy and strife Caesar Augustus (mentioned in Luke) was the first emperor of Rome and was in power when Christ was born; 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; 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; (1) (adjective for two-club or two-diamond opening) indicating a three-suiter; type which is not italic or bold, e g like this; IV; Commonly refers to the upright version of a face within a font family, as compared to the italic version; Noun (Plural: Romans) A citizen of the Ancient Roman Empire, or of such Also a citizen of modern Rome, or of such; type term; a resident of modern Rome; Referring to a font; upright and perpendicular to the baseline to top; of or relating to or supporting Romanism; "the Roman Catholic Church"; Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I; of or relating to or characteristic of Rome (especially ancient Rome); "Roman architecture"; "the old Roman wall"; Term used to describe letters written in an upright style, as differentiated from an Italic style; a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions; The Latin alphabet Also used to describe any plain, upright letter Back to top; a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions a resident of modern Rome an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire of or relating to or characteristic of Rome (especially ancient Rome); "Roman architecture"; "the old Roman wall"; characteristic of the modern type that most directly represents the type used in ancient Roman inscriptions; AD 43 - c 410; relating to or characteristic of people of Rome; "Roman virtues"; "his Roman bearing in adversity"; "a Roman nose"; the opposite of italic; also used as opposite of boldface, but not at GTS; An upright letter, as opposed to a sloped, or italic, letter The term also describes a style of type based upon Italian manuscript hands of the fifteenth century
Roman Catholic: A person who belongs to the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church
Roman Catholic: Of or pertaining to the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church: The Roman Rite of the Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church: That part of the Christian churches in union with the pope in Rome
Roman Catholicism: The beliefs or religion of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholics: plural form of Roman Catholic
Roman Empire: An empire that used to exist between 85 BCE and 476 CE; it encompassed territories stretching from Britain and Germany to North Africa and the Persian Gulf
Roman Rite: The Latin rite used by the Roman Catholic Church
Roman alphabet: The Latin alphabet
Roman alphabets: plural form of Roman alphabet
Roman bath: Any of the buildings in a Roman baths complex
Roman baths: A complex of public buildings, in the time of Ancient Rome, in which bathing took place as a social activity
Roman candle: a type of firework, with a long, thick paper tube that contains layers of "stars" and lifting charges. When ignited, pyrotechnic stars shoot from the tube one at a time
Roman candle: a type of parachute deployment failure
Roman candles: plural form of Roman candle, a type of firework
Roman holiday: A public entertainment characterized by violence, degradation and suffering
Roman mile: an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards (1481 meters)
Roman miles: plural form of Roman mile
Roman nose: An aquiline nose
Roman noses: plural form of Roman nose
Roman numeral: A numeral represented using a Roman system involving the letters I, V, X, L, C, D, and M
Roman numeral: The system using such letters
Roman numerals: The system of numerals using Roman numerals
Roman numerals is the system used on some clocks.
Roman numerals: plural form of Roman numeral
Roman numerals are used on some clocks.
Roman shower: A sexual fetish in which one participant vomits on another
I remembered Miranda talking about a rare Roman shower fetish, where people liked you to throw up on them.
roman font: an oldstyle serif font or typeface (sometimes capitalized "Roman")
roman font: a font which is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic
roman font: a font supporting (often exclusively) Western European languages (often capitalized Roman)
roman à clef: a piece of fiction, especially a novel, containing real-life people and/or events
roman concrete: Roman concrete (also called Opus caementicium) was a material used in construction during the late Roman Republic through the whole history of the Roman Empire. Roman concrete was based on a hydraulic-setting cement with many material qualities similar to modern Portland cement
roman chair: (Spor) The Roman chair is a piece of exercise equipment for abdominal exercise. It can also refer to an exercise performed on this equipment which is also known as the Captains chair
ROMAN SHADE: a tailored, fabric window shade that hangs as a flat panel and is raised by cords to fold accordion-style
ROMAN SHADE: A flat fabric shade which folds into neat horizontal pleats when it is raised
ROMAN SHADE: A tailored fabric window shade that folds sideways
ROMAN SHADE: As the shade is raised the material forms accordion pleats Return to Top
ROMAN SHADE: A flat fabric shade that folds into neat horizontal pleats when it is raised
Roman Africa: Proconsular Roman province. It was founded after Rome defeated Carthage in 146 BC and was subsequently extended to include Numidia and the northern part of modern Libya. Between 30 BC and AD 180, other parts of northern Africa, including Cyrenaica, Marmarica, and Mauretania, became part of the Roman Republic and Empire. In the 5th century the region was taken by the Vandals, though areas were later reconquered by the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire; the Muslims conquered the area in 641
Roman Catholic: A Roman Catholic is the same as a Catholic. Like her, Maria was a Roman Catholic. A member of the Roman Catholic Church. RC belonging or relating to the part of the Christian religion whose leader is the Pope = Catholic
Roman Catholic: The Roman Catholic Church is the same as the Catholic Church. a Roman Catholic priest
Roman Catholic: {i} member of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic: {s} of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church: The Christian church characterized by an episcopal hierarchy with the pope as its head and belief in seven sacraments and the authority of tradition
Roman Catholic Church: {i} Christian church with the Pope as its head
Roman Catholicism: doctrines and faith of the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholicism: Roman Catholicism is the same as Catholicism. The doctrines, practices, and organization of the Roman Catholic Church. Largest single Christian denomination in the world, with some one billion members, or about 18% of the world's population. The Roman Catholic church has had a profound effect on the development of Western civilization and has been responsible for introducing Christianity in many parts of the world. It regards itself as the only legitimate inheritor of the ministry of Jesus, by virtue of an unbroken succession of leaders beginning with St. Peter the Apostle and continuing to the present day. It holds that the pope is the infallible interpreter of divine revelation. Church organization is strictly hierarchical. The pope appoints and presides over about 150 cardinals. Each of the church's 500 archbishops is the head of an archdiocese. These in turn are divided into about 1,800 dioceses, each headed by a bishop. Within dioceses are parishes, each served by a church and a priest. Only men can enter the priesthood, but women who wish to enter holy orders can become nuns, who are organized into orders and convents. The basic form of worship is the mass, which celebrates the sacrament of the Eucharist. Theologically, Roman Catholicism differs from Protestantism with regard to its understanding of the sources of revelation and the channels of grace. With Eastern Orthodoxy it asserts that both scripture and church tradition are revelatory of the basis of Christian belief and church polity. It sets the number of sacraments at seven (baptism, penance, Eucharist, matrimony, ordination, confirmation, and anointing of the sick); its rich sacramental life is supplemented by other devotions, chiefly Eucharistic services and devotions to the saints. The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) promoted the role of the laity in the church, abolished the Latin mass, and strove to improve relations with other religions. Pope John Paul II actively promoted better ties with people of other faiths, especially with Jews, and remained a popular pope despite controversies over the role of women in the church, clerical celibacy, and church opposition to divorce, contraception by artificial means, homosexuality, and abortion. Although faced with many challenges, the church remained one of the largest and most significant religious bodies in the world at the start of its third millennium
Roman Curia: Group of Vatican bureaus that assist the pope in exercising his jurisdiction over the Roman Catholic Church. The work of the Curia is traditionally associated with the College of Cardinals. A cardinal named as secretary of state coordinates the activities of the Curia, and various sacred congregations handle administrative matters for example, the Sacred Congregation for the Causes of Saints is concerned with beatification and canonization and with the preservation of relics. The judicial branch of the Curia consists of three tribunals, of which the highest is the Apostolic Signatura
Roman Empire: An empire that succeeded the Roman Republic during the time of Augustus, who ruled from 27
Roman Empire: At its greatest extent it encompassed territories stretching from Britain and Germany to North Africa and the Persian Gulf. After 395 it was split into the Byzantine Empire and the Western Roman Empire, which rapidly sank into anarchy under the onslaught of barbarian invaders from the north and east. The last emperor of the West, Romulus Augustulus (born c. 461), was deposed by Goths in 476, the traditional date for the end of the empire. the countries of Europe, north Africa, and western Asia that were ruled by the ancient Romans from around 44 BC until AD 395, when the empire was divided into two parts. The Western Roman Empire continued until 476, and the Eastern Roman Empire continued until the 15th century. Holy Roman Empire, the
Roman Empire: early empire which ruled over countries around the Mediterranean Sea
Roman Jakobson: born Oct. 11, 1896, Moscow, Russia died July 18, 1982, Boston, Mass., U.S. Russian-born U.S. linguist. Born and educated in Moscow, Jakobson moved to Prague in 1920; the European political situation forced him to flee to Scandinavia in 1938 and to the U.S. in 1941. He taught at Harvard University (1949-67). His interests ranged from folk epics and the cultural history of the Slavs to general phonology, the morphology of the Slavic languages, and speech acquisition. His preoccupation with contrast and opposition is reflected in his analysis of the Russian case system (1938), a brilliant analysis of the Russian verbal system (1948), and preeminently in his work on distinctive features in phonology
Roman Jakobson: {i} (1896-1982) Russian born United States linguist and founder of modern structural linguistics and phonology
Roman Osipovich Jakobson: born Oct. 11, 1896, Moscow, Russia died July 18, 1982, Boston, Mass., U.S. Russian-born U.S. linguist. Born and educated in Moscow, Jakobson moved to Prague in 1920; the European political situation forced him to flee to Scandinavia in 1938 and to the U.S. in 1941. He taught at Harvard University (1949-67). His interests ranged from folk epics and the cultural history of the Slavs to general phonology, the morphology of the Slavic languages, and speech acquisition. His preoccupation with contrast and opposition is reflected in his analysis of the Russian case system (1938), a brilliant analysis of the Russian verbal system (1948), and preeminently in his work on distinctive features in phonology
Roman Polanski: born Aug. 18, 1933, Paris, France Polish-French film director. He grew up in Poland and survived a traumatic wartime childhood under the Nazis. His first feature film, Knife in the Water (1962), brought him international fame. He left Poland that year for Britain, where he made Repulsion (1965), and later the U.S., where his Rosemary's Baby (1968) was highly successful. In 1969 his new wife, the actress Sharon Tate, was murdered by followers of Charles Manson. He directed a graphic adaptation of Macbeth (1971) and the acclaimed film noir Chinatown (1974). In 1977 Polanski was arrested and eventually pleaded guilty to a charge of statutory rape. He subsequently jumped bail and fled to France, where he remained active in both the theatre and motion pictures. His subsequent films include Tess (1979), Frantic (1988), Bitter Moon (1992), Death and the Maiden (1994), and The Pianist (2002), which won the Gold Palm for best film at the Cannes International Film Festival and earned a best director Academy Award for Polanski
Roman Polanski: {i} (born 1933) French-born American film director (famous for directing the film "Rosemary's Baby")
Roman Republic and Empire: Ancient state that once ruled the Western world. It centred on the city of Rome from the founding of the republic (509 BC) through the establishment of the empire (27 BC) to the final eclipse of the empire in the west (5th century AD). The republic's government consisted of two consuls, the Senate, and magistrates, originally all patricians, and two popular plebeian assemblies: the military centuriate assembly and the civilian tribal assembly. A written code, the Law of the Twelve Tables (451 BC), became the basis of Roman private law. By the end of the 3rd century BC, Roman territory included all of Italy; by the late republican period it encompassed most of western Europe, northern Africa, and the Near East, organized into provinces. After a period of civil war, Julius Caesar took power as dictator. Following his assassination (44 BC), conflict among the triumvirs Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian ultimately resulted in Octavian's victory (31) and his accession as Emperor Augustus (r. 27 BC-AD 14). The imperial government, a principate, combined aspects of the republic and a monarchy. In AD 395 the empire split into eastern and western halves, with the west under severe pressure from the barbarians. Rome was sacked in 410 by the Visigoths, and the western empire fell to German invaders in 476; the east continued as the Byzantine Empire until 1453. See table
Roman alphabet: The Roman alphabet is the alphabet that was used by the Romans in ancient times and that is used for writing most western European languages, including English. the Roman alphabet the alphabet used in English and many other European languages, which begins with the letters A, B, C
Roman alphabet: Latin alphabet
Roman arch: A semicircular arch
Roman arch: semicircular arch
Roman architecture: style of architecture developed by the ancient Romans
Roman calendar: calendar used by the ancient Romans
Roman calendar: The lunar calendar used by the ancient Romans until the introduction of the Julian calendar in 46
Roman candle: A cylindrical firework that emits balls of fire and a shower of sparks
Roman congregation: Any department of the Curia dealing with rites, legal and administrative problems, questions of faith and morals, and other ecclesiastical matters
Roman de la Rose: (French; "Romance of the Rose") One of the most popular French poems of the late medieval period. Modeled on Ovid's Art of Love, it survives in more than 300 manuscripts. Its first 4,058 lines were written 1230 by Guillaume de Lorris; they form a charming dream allegory drawing on traditions of courtly love. About 1280 Jean de Meun wrote the rest of the more than 21,000 lines, incorporating a vast mass of encyclopaedic information and opinions on many contemporary topics, which secured the poem's fame. The Roman was translated by Geoffrey Chaucer and was one of the most important literary influences on his writings
Roman emperor: head of the Roman Empire, leader of Roman civilization
Roman law: method of law that was in effect in the Roman Empire
Roman law: The legal system of ancient Rome, forming the basis for modern civil law. civil law. Law of the Roman Republic and Empire. Roman law has influenced the development of law in most of Western civilization. It dealt with matters of succession (or inheritance), obligations (including contracts), property (including slaves), and persons. Most laws were passed by assemblies dominated by the patrician families, though the rulings of magistrates were also important. Later emperors bypassed these forms and issued their own decrees. The interpretations of jurists also came to have the weight of law. Though various attempts were made to gather and simplify existing laws (beginning with the Law of the Twelve Tables), by far the most successful effort was that of Justinian I, whose code superseded all previous laws and formed the Roman Empire's legal legacy (see Code of Justinian). Roman legal procedure is the basis for modern procedure in civil-law countries. In the early Republic, the plaintiff was required to call the defendant to court or to bring him by force. A magistrate then decided whether the case should go before a judex, or prominent layman. The judex heard arguments from advocates and questioned witnesses; he made a decision but had no power to execute it. In the later Republic, much greater power was placed in the hands of the magistrates and courts: the summons was issued by the court, the trial was held only before a magistrate, and the court became responsible for the execution of the sentence
Roman mythology: Oral and literary traditions of the ancient Romans concerning their gods and heroes and the nature and history of the cosmos. Much of what became Roman mythology was borrowed from Greek mythology at a later date, as Greek gods were associated with their Roman counterparts. As in Greek mythology, legendary Roman heroes (such as Romulus and Remus and Aeneas) were given semidivine status. See also Roman religion
Roman mythology: {i} collection of myths and stories from the time of ancient Rome and ancient Romans containing tales of many Gods and heroes, mythology of the ancient Rome
Roman nose: A nose with a high prominent bridge. a nose that curves out near the top
Roman numeral: Roman numerals are the letters used by the ancient Romans to represent numbers, for example I, IV, VIII, and XL, which represent 1, 4, 8, and
Roman numeral: Roman numerals are still sometimes used today. Any of the numerical symbols formed with the Roman letters I, V, X, L, C, D, and M, representing respectively the numbers 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, and 1000, used by the ancient Romans and still used today in certain formal contexts. a number in a system first used in ancient Rome that uses combinations of the letters I, V, X, L, C, D, and M to represent numbers Arabic numeral
Roman numerals: A bar over a symbol indicates that its value should be multiplied by 1,000
Roman numerals: number system in which letters represent numbers (i.e. XXII = 22)
Roman numerals: A symbol placed before one of greater value subtracts its value; for example, IV = 4 and XL =
Roman numerals: System of representing numbers devised by the ancient Romans. The numbers are formed by combinations of the symbols I, V, X, L, C, D, and M, standing, respectively, for 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, and 1,000 in the Hindu-Arabic numeral system. A symbol placed after another of equal or greater value adds its value; for example, II = 2 and LX =
Roman pontiff: {i} the Pope
Roman question: Dispute between church and state in Italy. With the completed unification of Italy in 1870, the papacy objected to the Italian seizure of Rome and the Papal States. The conflict was ended in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty, which created Vatican City and resolved the dispute
Roman religion: Religious beliefs of the Romans from ancient times until official acceptance of Christianity in the 4th century AD. The Romans believed that everything was subordinate to the rule of the gods, and the object of their religion was to secure divine cooperation and benevolence. Prayer and sacrifice were used to propitiate the gods and were often carried out at temples dedicated to particular divinities and presided over by priests (see flamen). The chief Roman priest, head of the state religion, was known as the pontifex maximus; notable among the other groups of priests were the augurs, who practiced divination to determine whether the gods approved of an action. The earliest Roman gods were the sky god Jupiter, the war god Mars, and Quirinus; other important early gods were Janus and Vesta. Many other deities were borrowed from Greek religion or associated with Greek gods, and the stories woven into Roman mythology were often taken directly from Greek mythology. Domestic shrines were devoted to divine ancestors or protectors, the Lares and Penates. Dead Roman emperors were also raised to the status of divinities and were regarded with veneration and gratitude
roman a clef: a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters
roman alphabet: the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe
roman arch: a round arch drawn from a single center
roman architecture: the architecture of ancient Rome
roman building: a building constructed by the ancient Romans
roman calendar: It is said to have consisted originally of ten months, Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December, having a total of 304 days
roman calendar: The calendar of the ancient Romans, from which our modern calendars are derived
roman calendar: In designating the days of the month, the Romans reckoned backward from three fixed points, the calends, the nones, and the ides
roman calendar: The nones came on the eighth day (the ninth, counting the ides) before the ides
roman calendar: Numa added two months, Januarius at the beginning of the year, and Februarius at the end, making in all 355 days
roman calendar: 12, the day before the ides, and Jan
roman calendar: The ides fell on the 15th in March, May, July (Quintilis), and October, and on the 13th in other months
roman calendar: Through abuse of power by the pontiffs to whose care it was committed, this calendar fell into confusion
roman calendar: 11, the third day before the ides (since the ides count as one), while Jan
roman calendar: the lunar calender in use in ancient Rome; replaced by the Julian calendar in 46 BC
roman calendar: Later the order of the months was changed so that January should come before February
roman calendar: 14 was the 19th day before the calends of February
roman calendar: 13 was called the ides of January, Jan
roman calendar: It was replaced by the Julian calendar
roman calendar: The calends were always the first day of the month
roman calendar: Thus, Jan
roman calendar: He also ordered an intercalary month, Mercedinus, to be inserted every second year
roman candle: a cylindrical firework that projects a series of colored balls of fire
roman catholic: the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy a member of the Roman Catholic Church
roman church: Roman Catholic: the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy
roman deity: a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans
roman emperor: sovereign of the Roman Empire
roman empire: an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome
roman fleuve: a French novel in the form of a long chronicle of a family or other social group
roman hyacinth: hyacinth with loosely flowered spikes, several growing from one bulb
roman law: the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law
roman legion: a division of from 3000 to 6000 men (including cavalry) in the Roman army
roman mythology: the mythology of the ancient Romans
roman nettle: annual European nettle with stinging foliage and small clusters of green flowers
roman nose: Head having a distinct convex curve; characteristic of the Barb and various heavy horses
roman nose: a nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge
roman nose: This is the convex facial profile in Shires and other heavy breeds
roman nose: The convex facial profile seen in Shires and other heavy breeds
roman numeral: a symbol in the old Roman notation; I,V,X,L,C,D,M represent 1,5,10,50,100,500,1000 respectively in Arabic notation
roman pace: 85 English feet measured as the distance from the heel of one foot to the heel of the same foot when next it touches the ground
roman pace: an ancient Roman unit of length 4
roman republic: the ancient Roman state from 509 BC until Augustus assumed power in 27 BC; was governed by an elected Senate but dissatisfaction with the Senate led to civil wars that culminated in a brief dictatorship by Julius Caesar
roman wormwood: glaucous herb of northeastern United States and Canada having loose racemes of yellow-tipped pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Fumaria European wormwood; minor source of absinthe
roman à clef: (French; "novel with a key") Novel that has the extraliterary interest of portraying identifiable people more or less thinly disguised as fictional characters. The tradition dates to 17th-century France, when members of aristocratic literary coteries included in their historical romances representations of well-known figures in the court of Louis XIV. A more recent example is W. Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale (1930), widely held to portray Thomas Hardy and Hugh Walpole. A more common type of roman à clef is one in which the disguised characters are easily recognized only by a few insiders, as in Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins (1954)
Gallo-Roman: Pertaining to period of Roman rule in Gaul, 50 BC–486 AD
Gallo-Roman: A Romanized Gaul, i.e. a Gaulish person that had adopted or adapted the culture, language etc. of the Roman Empire following the establishment of Roman rule in the region of Gaul
Gallo-Roman: Pertaining to the Gallo-Romans
Graeco-Roman wrestling: One of the two Olympic styles of wrestling, forbidding attacks below the waist
Greco-Roman: Of or pertaining to Greek or Roman culture
Greco-Roman: Describing Greco-Roman wrestling, a form of wrestling where fighters may only attack above the waist
Holy Roman Empire: A political conglomeration of lands in Central Europe from at least 962 CE until 1806
Romans: A book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of St Paul to the Christians in Rome
Romans: plural form of Roman
toey as a Roman sandal: extremely anxious for sex
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: a series of six historical books written by Edward Gibbon, which tell the story of the Roman Empire from the 1st century AD to the 15th century. It is one of the greatest historical works ever written in English (1776-88)
Eastern Roman Empire: Byzantine Empire, successor to the Roman Empire after the separation of the eastern and western sections of the empire in 395 AD (lasted till 1453 AD)
Greco-Roman: {s} of or pertaining to both Greek and Roman, pertaining to or characteristic of both ancient Greece and ancient Rome; of or relating to a wrestling hold that does not allow hold below the waist and no use of the legs to achieve a fall
Greco-Roman wrestling: Style of wrestling that prohibits the legs from being used to obtain a fall and in which no holds may be taken below the waist. It originated in France in the early 19th century in imitation of Classical Greek and Roman representations of the sport. It eventually came to be favoured by most other countries and was, until the acceptance of freestyle wrestling in the late 20th century, the style practiced exclusively in Olympic and international amateur competition
Holy Roman Empire: A loosely federated European political entity that began with the papal coronation of the German king Otto I as the first emperor in 962 and lasted until Francis II's renunciation of the title at the instigation of Napoleon in 1806. The empire was troubled by papal-secular squabbles over authority and after the 13th century by the rising ambitions of nationalistic states. By 1273 the empire consisted primarily of the Hapsburg domains in Austria and Spain. a group of European states which included parts of France, Germany, Austria, and Italy, and which were ruled by an emperor. It was established by Charlemagne in 800, and continued until 1806. For most of the period from the 13th century to the 19th century, its ruling family were the Hapsburgs. German Heiliges Römisches Reich Realm of varying extent in medieval and modern western and central Europe. Traditionally believed to have been established by Charlemagne, who was crowned emperor by Pope Leo III in 800, the empire lasted until the renunciation of the imperial title by Francis II in 1806. The reign of the German Otto I (the Great), who greatly enlarged the empire and revived the imperial title after Carolingian decline, is sometimes regarded as the beginning of the empire. The name Holy Roman Empire (not adopted until the reign of Frederick I Barbarossa) reflected Charlemagne's claim that his empire was the successor of the Roman Empire and that this temporal power was augmented by his status as God's principal vicar in the temporal realm (parallel to the pope's in the spiritual realm). The empire's core consisted of Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and Moravia. Switzerland, the Netherlands, and northern Italy sometimes formed part of it; France, Poland, Hungary, and Denmark were initially included, and Britain and Spain were nominal components. From the mid-11th century the emperors engaged in a great struggle with the papacy for dominance, and, particularly under the powerful Hohenstaufen dynasty (1138-1254), they fought with the popes over control of Italy. Rudolf I became the first Habsburg emperor in 1273, and from 1438 the Habsburg dynasty held the throne permanently. Until 1356 the emperor was chosen by the German princes; thereafter he was formally elected by the electors. Outside their personal hereditary domains, emperors shared power with the imperial diet. During the Reformation the German princes largely defected to the Protestant camp, opposing the Catholic emperor, and, after 1562, emperors were no longer crowned by the pope. At the end of the Thirty Years' War, the Peace of Westphalia recognized the individual sovereignty of the empire's states; the empire thereafter became a loose federation of states and the title of emperor principally honorific. In the 18th century, issues of imperial succession resulted in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War. The greatly weakened empire was brought to an end by the victories of Napoleon. See also Guelphs and Ghibellines; Investiture Controversy; Concordat of Worms
Romans: plural of Roman
greco-roman: characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures
greco-roman: an international style of wrestling in which the legs cannot be attacked, nor used for offense This places a great emphasis on throws
greco-roman: Decorative style reminiscent of late Classical antiquity Became popular in the 18th Century due to the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii, and formed the basis for 18th Century revivals
greco-roman deity: a deity of classical mythology
holy roman emperor: sovereign of the Holy Roman Empire
holy roman empire: the lands ruled by Charlemagne; a continuation of the Roman Empire in Europe
romans: a New Testament book containing an exposition of the doctrines of Saint Paul; written in AD 58
western roman empire: the western part after the Roman Empire was divided in 395; it lasted only until 476