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nouncapital 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
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Definition that contains rome
- down English physician who first described Down's syndrome (1828-1896)
- father (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom
- wash a watercolor made by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other
- collect a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England
- term (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome
- roman of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome)
- roman a resident of modern Rome
- roman relating to or characteristic of people of Rome
- acts a New Testament book describing the development of the early church from Christ's Ascension to Paul's sojourn at Rome
- latin any dialect of the language of ancient Rome