What does roman mean?
Roman means (of type, typography) Upright, as opposed to italic..
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/ˈɹəʊmən/ · adjective
(of type, typography) Upright, as opposed to italic..
In some early printed Bibles quoted text is indicated by changing the font from roman to italic.
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.
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.
Use roman when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Roman means (of type, typography) Upright, as opposed to italic..
Common synonyms include papistical, papistic, roman type, roman print.
Possible antonyms include italic, italicised, italicized, oblique.
In some early printed Bibles quoted text is indicated by changing the font from roman to italic.
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