RomanRoman adjective [usually before noun] 
an old Roman road the Roman occupation of Britain2relating to the city of Rome—Roman noun [countable]
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- First she posed as a Roman centurion and did a bit of torture.
- It's a Roman Catholic boarding school attached to a Benedictine Monastery.
- It would be just her and Roman at the breakfast-table.
- The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street.
- The high grey walls of the Roman fort provided a screen for these modern soldiers and their bizarre equipment.
- The picture Weiser begins drawing on the white board looks like a diagram of a Roman army.
- Under Augustus legislation was passed to allow freed slaves to marry and their children to become Roman citizens.
WORD SETS
abyss, nounalluvial, adjectivealluvium, nounalpine, adjectiveAmerican, adjectiveAntarctica, anticyclone, nounarchipelago, nounArctic, adjectivearid, adjectiveAsia, atlas, nounatoll, nounAustralasia, Australasian, adjectiveAustralia, avalanche, nounaxis, nounbank, nounbarometer, nounbarrier reef, nounbasin, nounbay, nounbayou, nounbeach, nounbearing, nounbed, nounbight, nounbluff, nounborder, nounborder, verbborderland, nounborderline, nounborough, nounbox canyon, nounBritish, adjectivebutte, nouncanyon, nouncape, nouncapital, nouncardinal point, nounCaribbean, adjectivecartography, nouncay, nounchain, nounchaparral, nounchart, nounchasm, nounchimney, nounChinese, adjectivecirrus, nounCIS, nouncliff, nounclimate, nounclimatic, adjectivecoastal, adjectivecoastline, nouncockney, nouncol, nouncold front, nouncommuter belt, nouncompass, nounconfluence, nouncontinent, nouncontinental, adjectivecontinental shelf, nouncontour, nounconurbation, nouncoordinate, nouncorridor, nouncorrie, nouncoterminous, adjectivecouncil estate, nouncountry, nouncounty, nouncounty town, nouncourse, nouncove, nouncrag, nouncraggy, adjectivecreek, nouncrevasse, nouncrevice, nouncumulus, nouncyclone, noundateline, noundelta, noundesert, noundesert island, noundevelopment, noundistrict, noundivide, noundown, adverbdune, noundust bowl, nouneast, nouneast, adjectiveeast, adverbeastbound, adjectiveeasterly, adjectiveeasterly, nouneastern, adjectiveEasterner, nouneasternmost, adjectiveeastwards, adverbelevation, nouneminence, nounenvirons, nounequatorial, adjectiveerode, verberosion, nounescarpment, nounestuary, nounEurope, nounextraterritorial, adjectiveeyot, nounface, nounfarmland, nounfeeder, nounfiord, nounfirth, nounfjord, nounflood plain, nounfluvial, adjectivefrontier, nounfrontiersman, noungale force, adjectivegap, noungeo-, prefixgeography, noungeophysics, noungeopolitics, noungeyser, nounglacial, adjectiveglaciation, nounglacier, nounglobe, noungoldfield, noungorge, noungrassland, nounGrecian, adjectivegreen belt, noungrid, noungrotto, noungroundwater, noungulch, noungulf, noungully, nounhead, nounheadland, nounheadwaters, nounheartland, nounhemisphere, nounhighland, adjectivehighlands, nounhigh water mark, nounhinterland, nounHome Counties, the, homeland, nounhurricane, noun-i, suffixIberian, adjectiveiceberg, nounice cap, nounice floe, nounice pack, nounice sheet, nouninhabitant, nouninland, adjectiveinland, adverbinlet, nouninner city, nouninshore, adverbinsular, adjectiveintercontinental, adjectiveInternational Date Line, nounisland, nounisle, nounislet, nounisobar, nounIsraeli, adjectiveIsraeli, nounisthmus, nounItalian, adjectiveItalianate, adjectiveItalo-, prefixJapanese, adjectivekey, nounknoll, nounlagoon, nounlake, nounlandlocked, adjectivelandmass, nounlandslide, nounlandslip, nounlat., Latin, adjectiveLatin America, nounLatin American, adjectivelatitude, nounlevee, nounlittoral, nounlong., longitude, nounlongitudinal, adjectivelough, nounlowlands, nounlow-lying, adjectivelow water mark, nounmagnetic north, nounmagnetic pole, nounmarsh, nounmarshland, nounmeander, verbMediterranean, adjectiveMercator projection, nounmeridian, nounmesa, nounMiddle America, nounmidtown, adjectivemonsoon, nounmoorland, nounmorass, nounmountain, nounmountainside, nounmountaintop, nounmouth, nounmudslide, nounmull, nounnarrows, nounnavigation, nounNE, neck, nounnor'-, prefixnorth, nounnorth, adjectivenorth, adverbNorth America, nounnortheast, nounnortheast, adjectivenortheasterly, adjectivenortheastern, adjectivenortheastwards, adverbnortherly, adjectivenorthern, adjectivenortherner, nounnorthernmost, adjectivenorthwards, adverbnorthwest, nounnorthwest, adjectivenorthwesterly, adjectivenorthwestern, adjectivenorthwestwards, adverbnotch, nounNW, NZ, oasis, nounoccidental, nounocean, nounonshore, adjectiveopenness, nounOrdnance Survey map, nounoriental, adjectiveoutcrop, nounoverspill, nounpack ice, nounpaddy, nounpalisade, nounpan-, prefixpanhandle, nounparallel, nounpeak, nounpeninsula, nounPersian, adjectivephysical geography, nounplain, nounplateau, nounpoint, nounpolar, adjectivepole, nounpolitical geography, nounpollutant, nounpop., populate, verbpopulation, nounprairie, nounprecipice, nounprecipitation, nounPrime Meridian, principality, nounprojection, nounpromontory, nounprovince, nounprovincial, adjectivepueblo, nounR, rainfall, nounrain forest, nounrain gauge, nounrainstorm, nounrange, nounravine, nounreef, nounreference, nounregion, nounregional, adjectiverelief map, nounreservoir, nounresettle, verbresidential, adjectiveresource, nounridge, nounrift valley, nounrise, verbriver, nounriver basin, nounriver bed, nounRoman, adjectiverotation, nounrugged, adjectiverun-off, nounrural, adjectivesand, nounsand bar, nounsandstorm, nounsandy, adjectivesavanna, nounScandinavian, nounscar, nounscarp, nounscree, nounscrubland, nounSE, seaboard, nounsea breeze, nounseafront, nounsea level, nounseaport, nounseaward, adjectivesection, nounsemitropical, adjectiveshelf, nounslough, nounsmog, nounsnowfield, nounsource, nounsouth, nounsouth, adjectivesouth, adverbSouth America, adjectivesoutheast, nounsoutheast, adjectivesoutheasterly, adjectivesoutheastern, adjectivesoutheastwards, adverbsoutherly, adjectivesouthern, adjectivesouthernmost, adjectivesouthwards, adverbsouthwest, nounsouthwest, adjectivesouthwesterly, adjectivesouthwestern, adjectivesouthwestwards, adverbspeleology, nounspit, nounspur, nounstrait, nounsubcontinent, nounsubtropical, adjectivesuburb, nounsuburban, adjectivesummit, nounsurvey, nounsurvey, verbSW, swamp, nountableland, nounterrain, nounterritory, nountidal, adjectivetidal wave, nountidewater, nountime zone, nountop, nountopography, nountor, nountornado, nountown, nountown centre, nountowpath, nountrack, nountract, nountrade route, nountrail, nountransatlantic, adjectivetranscontinental, adjectivetributary, nountropic, nountropical, adjectivetundra, nountyphoon, nounUK, the, uncharted, adjectiveup, adverbup-country, adjectiveuplands, nounupper, adjectiveupriver, adverbupstate, adjectiveupstream, adverbuptown, adverburban, adjectiveurbanized, adjectiveurban renewal, nounurban sprawl, nounUS, the, adjectivevalley, nounW, warm front, nounwaste, adjectivewasteland, nounwater, verbwatercourse, nounwaterfall, nounwaterfront, nounwaterhole, nounwatering place, nounwater meadow, nounwatershed, nounwater table, nounwaterway, nounweather vane, nounwest, nounwest, adjectiveWest, nounwestern, adjectiveWesterner, nounwesternmost, adjectivewestward, adverbwilderness, nounwolds, nounzoning, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the international phonetic alphabet
1relating to ancient Rome or the Roman Empire: the international phonetic alphabet· I followed the crowds to the Roman Catholic church for Mass.
· The Barbarians finally overthrew the Roman empire.
· the figure of Hercules in Greek legend
formal (=one that curves out near the top)· He had a thin face with an aquiline nose.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· If so, they may have reckoned without the fleet, which provided the Roman army with its mobility.· The picture Weiser begins drawing on the white board looks like a diagram of a Roman army.· A massive Roman army besieged Jerusalem, utterly destroying the Temple and razing the city to the ground.· This extremely masculine religion appealed to the Roman army.· This long involvement with the Roman army deserves a separate consideration elsewhere.· The dual organization of the Roman army reflected of course the dual organization of the Roman state.
· The devout Roman Catholic said she got involved with Richard because he said he cared for her and he was single.· She was a Roman Catholic, which Papa didn't like.· Two C of E and a Roman Catholic.· Religion: Christianity-around 70% Roman Catholic, 15% Protestant.· Certainly, Mr Patten, a Roman Catholic, ought to be able to appreciate casuistry.
· He resigned his office but was retained on the council when he announced his reversion to Roman Catholicism.· Ultimately, the king was swayed to Roman Catholicism by his prisoner.· To guard the Church's other flank, Taylor was asked by his colleagues to write a book against Roman Catholicism.· The Moravian Church, not Roman Catholicism, is the largest religion.· His real purpose was to further the cause of Roman Catholicism.· Moreover, he overcame what many saw as his main problem - his Roman Catholicism - by meeting it head on.
· The kingdom of Sicily, it was agreed, belonged to the Roman Church.· The kingdom of Sicily became a fief of the Roman Church during the minority of Frederick.· The Roman church was exercising leadership long before anyone appealed to this text.· Like most Roman churches, the building is of brick and is fronted by a porch and open narthex.· Trifling though they may appear, these are the conventionally cited points of contention between the Celtic and Roman churches.· Innocent had been brought up within the structure of the Roman Church.· The South is seen as dominated by the Roman church.· He was an archbishop, the king's chief minister, but he was also a cardinal of the Roman church.
· No, the walled Roman city hasn't unearthed an Underground among its excavations.· George Grindal remembered that some twelve feet below him lay the remains of a Roman city where once Constantine was proclaimed Emperor.· Apart from these walls little remains today of the great Roman city laid out by Constantine and his successors.· Nearby Carthage contains the intriguing ruins of that once prestigious Phoenician and Roman city.
· The Roman coins showed the head and inscription of the Emperor.· Many people spend years detecting without ever finding Roman coins.· Research Please can you identify this Roman coin for me?· I issue a monthly list, with the main emphasis on Roman coins.· In his bedroom he had a collection of Roman coins.· Finds of Roman coins and pottery within the graveyard may indicate a similar relationship.· Coins date: Roman coins unearthed in Malton will go on show at the town's museum from April 18.· This is by far the largest cache of Roman coins to be uncovered in Britain since the eighteenth century.
· Hadrian Road was named after the Roman emperor who, we agreed, must have genetically bequeathed to us some superlative qualities.· It's like that Roman Emperor who made his horse into a consul.· A number of the Roman emperors were great patrons of building and endorsed and encouraged extensive schemes of architectural development.· This is the only example portraying a Roman Emperor which has survived intact from such an early age.· He would have made a good bad Roman Emperor.· The deposition of Nepos and then that of Romulus Augustulus in 476 saw the end of the line of western Roman emperors.
· Mass-production of greenish glass also occurred at the western end of the Roman Empire as mentioned above.· It was luxuries like A / C that brought down the Roman Empire.· Pausanias the traveller, under the Roman empire, saw one wooden column still surviving inside.· Almost a thousand buildings are represented, mainly from the city of Rome and from eastern provinces of the Roman empire.· Henry died with the title of emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.· It is through talk that our children learn about barometers, mortgages, civil rights, psychotherapy, and the Roman Empire.
· One possible source of the antimony might be recycled Roman glass tesserae.· The glass contains lower soda and generally higher aluminia than found in Roman glasses.· They suggest that Roman glass was melted down and recycled to make a range of distinctive early medieval vessel forms.
· There were some striking continuities in terms of the survival of Roman law and custom and language.· Formulary procedure was the classical procedure of Roman law.· Roman Law B: non-classical Roman Law.· Childebert's legislation is remarkable not only for its range, but also for its clear dependence on Roman Law.· Most of the wordings initially used for trusts in Roman law are words that could be described as precatory.
· Both had a slightly Roman nose.· Black curls, a handsome Roman nose, shining sharp senseless saliva-moist teeth.· It was time to rub that handsome Roman nose of his in the dirt.
· For the Roman period, settlement patterns are perhaps a little more precise.· In the Hellenistic and Roman periods mystery religions and cults spread through the ancient world.· The mercury method, so popular in the Roman period for gilding, can also be used for silvering bronze and brass.· Coins of the Roman period have been found in the woods and fields around the village.· Much the same picture emerges at Dragonby throughout the Roman period.· Both tumbler and lever locks were in everyday use quite early in the Roman period, as excavations at Pompeii have shown.· This overlapped to a considerable degree the Roman bath concept and adaptations had to be made in the Imperial Roman period.· Interestingly, the use of key rings is confined solely to the Roman period.
· He and his falconer go out perhaps once in a week along the ridge towards the Roman road from Shrewsbury.· Return is by way of the old Roman road to Biberwier.· Of the Roman roads of the district, one need say little.· The next morning they began their gruelling journey up the ancient Roman road which ran from London's city wall into Oxfordshire.· A much odder but more interesting Roman road is that running north-east from Bicester on its way to Towcester in Northamptonshire.· Three miles away at Wheeldale is a perfectly preserved stretch of Roman road.· It was not until the eighteenth century that the Roman road was re-used and became important as a through route.
· It was extremely unpopular because it was a symbol of Roman rule.· It spread from there to Rome, and also to Athens and as far as London under Roman rule.· After the end of Roman rule, the picture is equally unclear.· They never asked a question about the justice of Roman rule nor about the real sources of her power.· Taken as a whole, by the late fourth century the two dioceses had gained much from four centuries of Roman rule.
· A little later, in Ancient Roman times, the mobbing display again appears in the art of the day.· Peafowl have been domesticated and valued as a special food dish for the rich since Roman times!· The site is very exposed on that side, in Roman times there was a woodland there, so it was sheltered.· It was the first major concrete structure to be built in Britain since Roman times.· Verdun had a long history: it was an important city in Roman times.· The calendar we use was developed in Roman times.· He says the current road-building programme is the biggest in this country since Roman times.· It was as if I were back in Roman times.
· There were not many pagans left in Roman towns by the middle of the fifth century.· Towcester Perhaps most famous today for its Racecourse, it was originally the Roman town of Lactodorum.· The road through the Roman town was abandoned and re-routed just outside it, presumably in the fifth or sixth centuries.
· The merchant stared round the ruined Roman villa.· Found in a Roman villa at Lullingstone, Kent.· Many Roman villas were built in the form of a rectangle - buildings on three sides and a wall on the fourth.· It was discovered at the earlier date that the remains of an impressive Roman villa straddled the course boundary.· The town of Brading has a Roman villa with fine mosaic floors and a medieval church.· An excavation of a Roman villa, for example, can produce several tons of small fragments of pottery, glass and tiles.· Rebuild the Roman villa and use it for a hydro and health farm.
· As recent work indicated. it too was redeveloped within its older Roman walls on a huge scale in late Saxon times.· There are also remains of baths, a theatre and many parts of the Roman walls, with gates and towers preserved.· The Normans were later to add their own castle, Pevensey Castle, inside the Roman walls.· Finch had grown up in Northumberland, twenty miles from Henry, near the Roman Wall.· The Roman Wall was built as much to keep people in, as to keep the wild tribes from the north out.
· This is understandable because the Gospels were written at a time when the Church had to exist in a Roman world.· From richer areas of the Roman world, sarcophagi have been found with many of the Labours in relief.· He ordered a census throughout the Roman world.· It was egalitarian and free from the weakening and divisive influence of the Roman world and of urban society.· In the Roman world it was probably responsible for any expansions which occurred in trade and equally for any constraints that existed.
an old Roman road the Roman occupation of Britain2relating to the city of Rome—Roman noun [countable]