Roman

adjective

• 1relating to ancient Rome or its empire or people:a site rich in finds from Bronze Age and Roman settlements
• relating to medieval or modern Rome:the Roman and Pisan lines of popes

• 2 datedshort for Roman Catholic.the Roman Church’s instructions to its clergy

• 3denoting the alphabet (or any of the letters in it) used for writing Latin, English, and most European languages, developed in ancient Rome: he substituted the Roman alphabet for the Arabic in written Turkish

• 4 (roman) (of type) of a plain upright kind used in ordinary print, especially as distinguished from italic and Gothic: each complete type family in bold, italic, bold italic and roman

noun

• 1a citizen or soldier of the ancient Roman Republic or Empire: the Romans had a formidable army
• a citizen of modern Rome.

• 2 dated a Roman Catholic.

• 3 (roman) [mass noun] roman type: it is signed in roman rather than his usual cursive script