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ROMANIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Romanize mean?
• ROMANIZE (verb)
The verb ROMANIZE has 1 sense:
1. write in the Latin alphabet
Familiarity information: ROMANIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they romanize ... he / she / it romanizes
Past simple: romanized
Past participle: romanized
-ing form: romanizing
Past simple: romanized
Past participle: romanized
-ing form: romanizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Write in the Latin alphabet
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
Latinise; Latinize; Romanise; Romanize
Context example:
many shops in Japan now carry neon signs with Romanized names
Hypernyms (to "Romanize" is one way to...):
transcribe; transliterate (rewrite in a different script)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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