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# roman

«roman» in Mova's school dictionary: **Connected with ancient Rome, a powerful empire long ago…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (Roman — with a capital R); noun (a Roman, Romans)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Connected with ancient Rome, a powerful empire long ago around the Mediterranean Sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roman/#m1)

2) A person from ancient Rome or from the city of Rome today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roman/#m2)

3) "roman" with a small r: ordinary upright print, not italic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roman/#m3)

4) A Roman candle is a firework that shoots out bright sparks and balls of fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roman/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons pupils learn about the Romans: their roads, baths, soldiers and buildings, and Hadrian's Wall in Britain. In maths, Roman numerals are I, V, X, L, C, D and M. Phrases: Roman numerals, the Roman Empire, Roman soldiers, Roman roads.

### examples

- The Romans built long straight roads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roman/#x1)
- Roman soldiers were called legionaries. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roman/#x2)
- We are learning to read Roman numerals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roman/#x3)
- In Roman numerals, X means ten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roman/#x4)
- The clock has Roman numerals on its face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roman/#x5)
- Hadrian's Wall was built by the Romans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roman/#x6)
- The Roman Empire was huge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roman/#x7)
- “Nonsense!” said the Roman Candle, “Romance never dies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roman/#x8)

### note

Usually written with a capital R. Roman numerals: I = 1, V = 5, X = 10, L = 50, C = 100, D = 500, M = 1000. A smaller numeral before a bigger one is taken away: IV = 4, IX = 9; after it is added: VI = 6, XI = 11. There is no Roman numeral for zero.

### In the corpora

- [Nearly 2000 years ago a volcano buried a Roman town and burned a library of scrolls to black lumps that nobody could open.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/0/)
- [Real life: Stone Age people in Britain did not write; writing came to Britain with the Romans, about 2,000 years ago.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/86-justso-first-letter-3-a-great-invention/27/)
- [Zara built her school project, a Roman villa, in Minecraft and showed it on the class screen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/14/)
- [Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian all grew out of Latin, the language of the Roman Empire.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/25-languages-and-peoples-on-the-map/12/)
- [In AD 79 Vesuvius buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum under ash and pyroclastic flows.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «roman» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/roman/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.