roman

FREQ #2820

发音

/ˈɹəʊmən/

词形变化

romans 复数 romans

别名

rom

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    One of the main three types used for the Latin alphabet (the others being italics and blackletter), in which the ascenders are mostly straight.

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  2. 2.

    Ellipsis of roman numeral.

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  3. 3.

    A novel.

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    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.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Upright, as opposed to italic.

    媒体 印刷
  2. 2.

    Of or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.

    计算机 工程 数学 媒体 印刷

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词源

From Roman.

来源:wiktionary