Adjective

roman (not comparable)

Positive roman

Comparative not comparable

Superlative none (absolute)

1. (of type) Upright, as opposed to italic.
2. (of type) A serifed style of typeface.
3. (of type or text) Supporting or using a Western European character set.

Antonyms

• (upright): italic, italicised, italicized
• (upright): oblique, slanted, sloped
• (serifed): sans-serif, sans serif
• (Western European): non-Latin, Central European

Derived terms

• Times Roman (proprietary)
• Times New Roman (proprietary)

Bosnian

Noun

roman m. sg. (plural romani)

1. novel (work of fiction)

Crimean Tatar

Roman or Romans may refer to:

• A thing or person of or from the city of Rome.

History

• Ancient Rome (9th century BC – 5th century AD)
  • Roman Kingdom (753 BC to 509 BC)
  • Roman Republic (509 BC to 44 BC)
  • Roman Empire (27 BC to 476/1453 AD)
  • Roman citizenship
  • Byzantine Empire (330/476/629 to 1453), a Late Antiquity and medieval continuation of the Greek-speaking portion of the Roman Empire
  • Romaioi (Ρωμαίοι) or Romioi (Ρωμιοί), Greek-speaking population of the Eastern Empire dating to Late Antiquity (the term translates literally to "Roman")
• Holy Roman Empire (c. 900 to 1806), a medieval German-speaking state in Central Europe

Geography

• Roman, Bulgaria, a municipality near Pravets
• Romans-sur-Isère, in the Drôme département of France
• Roman, Romania, a city in Neamţ county
• Romans, Ain, a town in France
• Roman, Eure, France
• Romans, Deux-Sèvres, France
• Romans d'Isonzo, a town in Italy
• Roman roads
• Roman Valley, Nova Scotia
• Saint Roman (community), Monaco

Christianity

• Roman Catholic Church, a Christian church that professes the Catholic faith
• Roman Missal, a book containing prayers and readings for a Roman Catholic Mass
• Epistle to the Romans, a letter in the New Testament of the Christian Bible

Typography

• Roman type, an upright typeface style, contrasted to italic
• Times Roman, a font
• Roman (typeface), a raster font packaged with Windows XP

Literature

• Romance (genre), a genre of Medieval French literature
• Nouveau roman

Music

• Roman, Music artist and producer
• Romans (group), Hello! Project J-pop music group
• Roman, an album by the Japanese musical group Sound Horizon

Mythology

• Roman mythology

People

• Roman (name), a male given name derived from Latin Romanus
  • See the above article for persons with the given name "Roman"
• Roman of Bulgaria, emperor of Bulgaria 971-991
• Bernard Romans, Dutch-born navigator, surveyor, cartographer, naturalist, engineer, soldier, promoter and writer
• Valter Roman and Petre Roman, Romanian politicians
• Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer
• Roman Bellic, a character from the game Grand Theft Auto IV

Other

• Roman (film)
• Roman alphabet or Latin alphabet, the standard script of the English language and most of the languages of western and central Europe, and of those areas settled by Europeans
• Roman architecture
• Roman army
• Roman calendar
• Roman candle (firework)
• Roman chair
• Roman chamomile
• Romans, a race in the Heroscape Universe
• Roman law, the legal system of both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire
• Roman numerals, numeral system where certain letters are given a numeral value
• Roman pot, a device used in accelerator physics
• Imperial cult (ancient Rome), Roman religion
• Roman surface, self-intersecting immersion of the real projective plane into three-dimensional geometrical space
• The Romans (Doctor Who), An episode of the BBC production, Doctor Who
• Roman (vehicle manufacturer), a Romanian truck manufacturer
• Ar-Rum, the 30th book in the Qu'ran, is sometimes translated as The Romans