1 of or connected with ancient Rome or the Roman Empire:
a Roman road / temple / villa * Roman Britain
2 of or connected with the modern city of Rome
3 of or connected with the Roman Catholic Church:
the Roman rite
4 roman type is ordinary upright printing type:
Definitions in this dictionary are printed in roman type.
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Part of speech: noun
1 [C] a member of the ancient Roman republic or empire:
after the Romans invaded Britain
2 [C] a person from the modern city of Rome
3 (roman) [U] the ordinary style of printing that uses small upright letters, like these words
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IDIOMS see ROME
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