ROMAN EMPIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Roman Empire mean? 

• ROMAN EMPIRE (noun)
  The noun ROMAN EMPIRE has 1 sense:

1. an empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome

  Familiarity information: ROMAN EMPIRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROMAN EMPIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An empire established by Augustus in 27 BC and divided in AD 395 into the Western Roman Empire and the eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were ruled by ancient Rome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

empire; imperium (the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised)

Meronyms (parts of "Roman Empire"):

Byzantine Empire; Byzantium; Eastern Roman Empire (a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395)

Western Empire; Western Roman Empire (the western part after the Roman Empire was divided in 395; it lasted only until 476)

Meronyms (members of "Roman Empire"):

Roman (an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire)

Domain member region:

ancients (people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe))

prefecture (the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire))

Holonyms ("Roman Empire" is a part of...):

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

 Context examples 

Led by researchers at the University of Maryland's National-Socio Environmental Synthesis Center, the team found that the plague's effects, sometimes attributed to the fall of the Roman Empire, may have been exaggerated.

(Justinianic plague not a landmark pandemic?, National Science Foundation)

Intense hurricanes possibly more powerful than any storms New England has experienced in recorded history frequently pounded the region during the first millennium, from the peak of the Roman Empire to the height of the Middle Ages.

(Monster hurricanes struck U.S. Northeast during prehistoric periods of ocean warming, NSF)

Then he would pass through the land of the Almains and the great Roman Empire, and so to the country of the Huns and of the Lithuanian pagans, beyond which lies the great city of Constantine and the kingdom of the unclean followers of Mahmoud.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)