Definition of "roman" in Englisch

adjective

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

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

noun

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.

3. (archaic, countable) A novel.

   • 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.