ROME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rome mean? 

• ROME (noun)
  The noun ROME has 2 senses:

1. capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire

2. the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church

  Familiarity information: ROME used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Italy; Eternal City; Italian capital; Roma; Rome

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Rome"):

Lateran (the site in Rome containing the church of Rome and the Lateran Palace)

Holy See; State of the Vatican City; The Holy See (the smallest sovereign state in the world; the see of the Pope (as the Bishop of Rome); home of the Pope and the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church; achieved independence from Italy in 1929)

Seven Hills of Rome (the hills on which the ancient city of Rome was built)

Sistine Chapel (the private chapel of the popes in Rome; it was built by and named after Sixtus IV in 1473)

Amphitheatrum Flavium; Colosseum (a large amphitheater in Rome whose construction was begun by Vespasian about AD 75 or 80)

Meronyms (members of "Rome"):

Roman (a resident of modern Rome)

Domain member region:

Roman; Romanic (of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome))

pantheon ((antiquity) a temple to all the gods)

tribune ((ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests)

sibyl ((ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet)

procurator ((ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes)

pontifex (a member of the highest council of priests in ancient Rome)

gladiator ((ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat)

centurion ((ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers)

augur; auspex ((ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy)

Bacchus ((classical mythology) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus)

lustrum (a ceremonial purification of the Roman population every five years following the census)

catacomb (an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome))

circus ((antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games)

toga virilis ((ancient Rome) a toga worn by a youth as a symbol of manhood and citizenship)

Holonyms ("Rome" is a part of...):

Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The leadership of the Roman Catholic Church

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Rome" is a kind of...):

leaders; leadership (the body of people who lead a group)

Holonyms ("Rome" is a part of...):

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

 Context examples 

I desired that the senate of Rome might appear before me, in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a later age in counterview, in another.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

After some time he took it in his head that he would travel to Rome.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

We shall soon meet in Rome, and then, if I don't change my mind, I'll say "Yes, thank you," when he says "Will you, please?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

These are early days, Trot, she pursued, and Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Rome was not built in a day, and we have lots of money at our backs, though we don’t cut much dash yet in offices.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I got this cordial at Rome, of an Italian charlatan—a fellow you would have kicked, Carter.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The new Io hotspot JIRAM picked up is about 200 miles (300 kilometers) from the nearest previously mapped hotspot, said Alessandro Mura, a Juno co-investigator from the National Institute for Astrophysics in Rome.

(NASA Juno data indicate another possible volcano on Jupiter moon Io, NASA)

Henderson he called himself, but I traced him back, Paris and Rome and Madrid to Barcelona, where his ship came in in ’86.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How different from the manly and heroical poetry of Greece and Rome!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

How about flying to Paris? Or in Italy, Venice, Sienna, or Rome? In the US, Carmel-by-the-Sea or Santa Barbara? In Spain, Seville, or in Canada, Victoria or Quebec City?

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)