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- English Word Romaic Definition Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language.
- English Word Romaic Definition The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic.
- English Word Roman Definition 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.
- English Word Roman Definition Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic religion; professing that religion.
- English Word Roman Definition Upright; erect; -- said of the letters or kind of type ordinarily used, as distinguished from Italic characters.
- English Word Roman Definition Expressed in letters, not in figures, as I., IV., i., iv., etc.; -- said of numerals, as distinguished from the Arabic numerals, 1, 4, etc.
- English Word Roman Definition 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.
- English Word Roman Definition Roman type, letters, or print, collectively; -- in distinction from Italics.
- English Word Romance Definition A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.
- English Word Romance Definition An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.
- English Word Romance Definition A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.
- English Word Romance Definition The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages).
- English Word Romance Definition A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
- English Word Romance Definition Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
- English Word Romance Definition To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.
- English Word Romanced Definition of Romance
- English Word Romancer Definition One who romances.
- English Word Romancing Definition of Romance
- English Word Romancist Definition A romancer.
- English Word Romancy Definition Romantic.