roman

• Roman

From Roman.

• enPR: rōmən, IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊmən/
• Rhymes: -əʊmən
• Homophones: roamin' (some accents), Roman
• Hyphenation: ro‧man

roman (not comparable)

1. (of type, typography) Upright, as opposed to italic.

   Antonyms: italic, italicised, italicized, oblique, slanted, sloped

   • 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 48:

     In some early printed Bibles quoted text is indicated by changing the font from roman to italic.

2. (of text, typography, computing) Of or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.

   Coordinate terms: Arabic, arabic

• roman font

roman (uncountable)

1. (typography) One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.
2. (chiefly American typesetting; uncommon outside that) Ellipsis of roman numeral.

   Coordinate term: arabic

3. (archaic) A novel.
   • 1986 December 21, Michael Bronski, “Buddy Stories Your Brother Never Told You”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 7:

     What raises One Last Waltz far above the usual family roman is not just the gimmick of the ancient fable in modern clothes […] but Mordden's language and his sheer joy at telling a story.

   • 2014, "Novel and Romance: Etymologies". Heyworth, Gregory; Logan, Peter Melville (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Novel, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 942. →ISBN

     Samuel Johnson, writing in his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), [defined] "novel [as] a small tale, generally of love." To modern sensibilities, Johnson's novel resembles more closely the novella in dimension and the romance in substance. [...] [T]he term romance, or roman, once interchangeable with novel in English, retains the meaning of novel in Germany, France, Russia, and most of Europe, while in the anglophone world it has been demoted to frivolity.

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Roman type on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• roman à tiroirs

• Armon, Manor, Maron, Moran, Narom, Nor Am, Nor-Am, NorAm, Norma, manor, moran, morna, norma

Borrowed from Russian рома́н (román), ultimately from French roman.

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roman (definite accusative romanı, plural romanlar)

1. A novel.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ruˈman]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [roˈman]

roman

1. inflection of romandre:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

roman (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. A novel, epic
2. The Romanian language.

   Synonyms: rоmen, rumın

roman c (singular definite romanen, plural indefinite romaner)

1. A novel (work of fiction).

• “roman” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from French roman.

• IPA^(key): /roːˈmɑn/

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• Hyphenation: ro‧man

roman m (plural romans, diminutive romannetje n)

1. a novel (work of fiction)

• Afrikaans: roman
• → Malay: roman
  • > Indonesian: roman (inherited)

• “roman” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.mɑ̃/

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• Homophone: romans

Borrowed from Latin romanus^[1] or derived from the French noun below,^[2] itself from Old French romanz (“common language”).

roman (feminine romane, masculine plural romans, feminine plural romanes)

1. (linguistics) Romance
2. (art) romanesque

• langue romane

Inherited from Old French romanz (“common language (as opposed to Latin)”), from Vulgar Latin romanicē (“in the way of the Romans (as opposed to the Franks)”), from Latin rōmānicus, from Latin rōmānus.^[3] The meaning “common language” changed into “book in common language” and then into “adventure novel”.^[1] See also romance, of the same ultimate origin but borrowed through Spanish.

roman m (plural romans)

1. a novel (work of fiction)
2. (colloquial) a very long text. (see pavé)

   Il nous écrit encore un roman.

   He's writing us a novel again.

• “roman” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “roman”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

roman

1. Roman

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈroman/ [ˈro.man]
• Rhymes: -oman
• Syllabification: ro‧man

Inherited from Malay roman, from Dutch roman.

roman (plural roman-roman)

1. (literature) novel: a work of prose fiction, longer than a novella

   Synonym: novel

2. (colloquial) apocopic form of romansa (“love story”)

Inherited from Malay roman. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

roman (plural roman-roman)

1. exeternal appearance
2. feature

   roman muka bumi ― feature of earth surface

Inherited from Malay roman (“rice-straw”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

roman (plural roman-roman)

1. chaff of rice

Borrowed from English roman.

roman (comparative lebih roman, superlative paling roman)

1. (typography) roman

roman (plural roman-roman)

1. (typography) roman

From Elnama.

roman

1. to cover the parts of the corpse's face that have gaps or holes (eyes, nose, mouth and ears) when bathing, using all ten fingers, done by only one person (usually the deceased's paternal aunt), so that no water gets in.

• “roman” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

roman

1. Rōmaji transcription of ロマン

Borrowed from Dutch roman, from French roman, from Old French romanz (“common language (as opposed to Latin)”), from Vulgar Latin romanicē (“in the way of the Romans (as opposed to the Franks)”), from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈroman/ [ˈro.man]
• Rhymes: -oman, -an
• Hyphenation: ro‧man

roman (plural roman-roman)

1. (obsolete) a novel, story written in long prose

   Synonym: novel

• > Indonesian: roman (inherited)

• “roman” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From French roman.

roman m (definite singular romanen, indefinite plural romaner, definite plural romanene)

1. A novel (work of fiction).

• “roman” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From French roman.

roman m (definite singular romanen, indefinite plural romanar, definite plural romanane)

1. A novel (work of fiction).

• krimroman

• “roman” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /roˈman/

Borrowed from French roman (“novel, epic”), from Old French romanz.

roman n (plural romane)

1. novel, epic (work of fiction)

Borrowed from French roman (“a medieval romance”).

roman n (plural romane)

1. Medieval romance

Borrowed from Latin rōmānus. Doublet of român (“Romanian”), rumân, and aromân (“Aromanian”), which was inherited. By surface analysis, Roma +‎ -an.

roman m or n (feminine singular romană, masculine plural romani, feminine and neuter plural romane)

1. Roman

roman m (plural romani, feminine equivalent romană)

1. Roman

From French roman.

• IPA^(key): /rǒmaːn/
• Hyphenation: ro‧man

ròmān m inan (Cyrillic spelling ро̀ма̄н)

1. A novel (work of fiction).

• “roman”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

• IPA^(key): /rɔmáːn/

romȃn m inan

1. A novel (work of fiction).

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	román
gen. sing.	romána
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	román	romána	románi
genitive (rodȋlnik)	romána	románov	románov
dative (dajȃlnik)	románu	románoma	románom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	román	romána	románe
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	románu	románih	románih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	románom	románoma	románi

From Old Swedish romaner, from French roman. Related to romans (“romance”).

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roman c

1. A novel (longer work of fiction)

• kortroman (“novella, short novel”)
• novell (“short story”)
• romans
• romantik
• romantisk

• roman in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• roman in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• roman in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Ottoman Turkish رومان, from French roman.

• IPA^(key): /ɾomɑn/

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roman (definite accusative romanı, plural romanlar)

1. A novel (work of fiction).

• çizgi roman