roman

alternative Roman

1. not comparablemediaUpright, as opposed to italic.

   In some early printed Bibles quoted text is indicated by changing the font from roman to italic.

   2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 48

   Antonyms: italic, italicised, italicized, oblique, slanted, sloped

2. not comparablecomputingOf or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.

plural romans · alternative Roman

1. countableuncountablemediaOne of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.
2. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountablechiefly American typesetting; uncommon outside that; chiefly American typesetting; uncommon outside thatEllipsis of roman numeral.
3. archaiccountableA novel.

   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.

   1986 December 21, Michael Bronski, “Buddy Stories Your Brother Never Told You”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 7

   1 more example

   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.

comparative more Roman · superlative most Roman

1. Of or from Rome.
2. historicalOf or from the Roman Empire.
3. historicalhistoriographyOf or from the Byzantine Empire.
4. Of noble countenance but with little facial expression.

   "Yes, I feel that I ought; and with me, to feel that I ought to do a thing, is to do it!" added he, looking quite Roman with excess of virtue.

   1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Influence of an Invitation”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 16

5. Supporting the characters of the Latin alphabet.
6. colloquiallawUsed to distinguish a Roman numeral from an Arabic numeral in oral discourse.

   You will find the term defined at the end of Roman one.

7. mediaA font that is upright, as opposed to oblique or italic. (See roman font.)
8. Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church or the Holy See.
9. architectureOf a style characterised by the size and boldness of its round arches and vaults, and having baths, aqueducts, basilicas, amphitheatres, etc.

plural Romans

1. A native or resident of Rome.
2. historicalA native or resident of the Roman Empire.
3. historicalhistoriographyA native or resident of the Byzantine Empire.

   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...

   2010, John Wortley trans. John Skylitzes as A Synopsis of Byzantine History, 811–1057, p. 442, n. 192

4. uncountableThe Roman script.

   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.

   2016 June 13, Hilary Bird, “Baby named Sahaiʔa prompts changes to Vital Statistics Act”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 13 Jun 2016

5. countablemediaA single letter or character in Roman type.
6. datedA Roman Catholic.

   ‘Is it like―I don’t know―Catholicism? One only spots the other Romans when one’s practised it oneself?’

   2006, Sarah Waters, The Night Watch, Virago Press, page 151

plural Romans

1. A male given name from Latin recently borrowed from continental Europe.
2. A surname.
3. A city in Neamț County, Romania.