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1. The capital and largest city of Italy, in the west-central part of the country on the Tiber River. Traditionally founded by Romulus in 753 bc, it was ruled first by Etruscans, who were overthrown c. 500 bc. The Roman Republic gradually extended its territory and expanded its influence, giving way to the Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus (27 bc-ad 14). As capital of the empire, Rome was considered the center of the known world, but the city declined when Constantine transferred his capital to Byzantium (c. 330). Alaric I conquered the city in 410, leading to a lengthy period of devastation by Germanic tribes. In the Middle Ages the city revived as the spiritual and temporal power of the papacy increased. During the 1800s Rome was held at various times by the French until it became the capital of Italy in 1871. Vatican City remains an independent enclave within the confines of Rome.

2. A city of central New York on the Mohawk River west-northwest of Utica. Because of its location as a portage point, the city was strategically important during the French and Indian Wars and the American Revolution.

3. See Roman Empire.

Rome²

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A variety of apple having round firm fruit with tough red skin.

[After Rome Township, Ohio, where it was discovered.]

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Rome

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1. (Placename) the capital of Italy, on the River Tiber: includes the independent state of the Vatican City; traditionally founded by Romulus on the Palatine Hill in 753 bc, later spreading to six other hills east of the Tiber; capital of the Roman Empire; a great cultural and artistic centre, esp during the Renaissance. Pop: 2 546 804 (2001). Italian name: Roma

2. (Historical Terms) the Roman Empire

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the Roman Empire

4. (Roman Catholic Church) the Roman Catholic Church or Roman Catholicism

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Rome

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n.

1. Italian, Roma. the capital of Italy, in the central part, on the Tiber: site of Vatican City. 2,817,227.

2. the ancient Italian kingdom, republic, and empire whose capital was the city of Rome.

3. the Roman Catholic Church.

4. Roman Catholicism.

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Noun	1.	Rome - 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 capital of Italy, Eternal City, Italian capital, Roma 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 Amphitheatrum Flavium, Colosseum - a large amphitheater in Rome whose construction was begun by Vespasian about AD 75 or 80 pantheon - (antiquity) a temple to all the gods Sistine Chapel - the private chapel of the popes in Rome; it was built by and named after Sixtus IV in 1473 toga virilis - (ancient Rome) a toga worn by a youth as a symbol of manhood and citizenship Seven Hills of Rome - the hills on which the ancient city of Rome was built 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 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 Bacchus - (classical mythology) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus Roman - a resident of modern Rome augur, auspex - (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy centurion - (ancient Rome) the leader of 100 soldiers gladiator - (ancient Rome) a professional combatant or a captive who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat pontifex - a member of the highest council of priests in ancient Rome procurator - (ancient Rome) someone employed by the Roman Emperor to manage finance and taxes sibyl - (ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet tribune - (ancient Rome) an official elected by the plebeians to protect their interests Romanic, Roman - of or relating to or derived from Rome (especially ancient Rome); "Roman architecture"; "the old Roman wall"
	2.	Rome - the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church, Roman Catholic - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy leaders, leadership - the body of people who lead a group; "the national leadership adopted his plan"

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1. → Roma f
all roads lead to Rome → todos los caminos llevan a Roma
Rome was not built in a day → no se ganó Zamora en una hora
when in Rome (do as the Romans do) → donde fueres, haz lo que vieres

2. (Rel) → la Iglesia, el catolicismo
Manning turned to Rome → Manning se convirtió al catolicismo

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Rome

[ˈrəʊm] n → Rome
in Rome → à Rome
to Rome → à Rome

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n → Rom nt; when in Rome (do as the Romans do) (prov) → ˜ andere Länder, andere Sitten (Prov); Rome wasn’t built in a day (Prov) → Rom ist auch nicht an einem Tag erbaut worden (Prov); all roads lead to Rome (Prov) → viele Wege führen nach Rom (prov); the Church of Rome → die römische Kirche

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Rome

[rəʊm] n → Roma f
the Church of Rome → la Chiesa Romana
when in Rome (do as the Romans do) → paese che vai usanze che trovi

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What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me?

In that land are mountains far higher than the Alban mountains; the vast Roman Campagna, a hundred miles long and full forty broad, is really small compared to the United States of America; the Tiber, that celebrated river of ours, which stretches its mighty course almost two hundred miles, and which a lad can scarcely throw a stone across at Rome, is not so long, nor yet so wide, as the American Mississippi--nor yet the Ohio, nor even the Hudson.

Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome, from the Castle of St.

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At the same time that the steamer disappeared behind Cape Morgion, a man travelling post on the road from Florence to Rome had just passed the little town of Aquapendente.

The traveller alighted, ordered a good dinner, and inquired the address of the house of Thomson & French, which was immediately given to him, as it was one of the most celebrated in Rome. It was situated in the Via dei Banchi, near St.

The Frenchman entered, leaving in the anteroom his guide, who immediately entered into conversation with two or three of the industrious idlers who are always to be found in Rome at the doors of banking-houses, churches, museums, or theatres.

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It was a portrait, painted in bright colors by Gerard, of the son borne to Napoleon by the daughter of the Emperor of Austria, the boy whom for some reason everyone called "The King of Rome."

Though it was not clear what the artist meant to express by depicting the so-called King of Rome spiking the earth with a stick, the allegory apparently seemed to Napoleon, as it had done to all who had seen it in Paris, quite clear and very pleasing.

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And he, although Rome was still pagan, became a Christian.

The Emperor willed it to be called New Rome, but instead the people called it the city of Constantine, and we know it now as Constantinople.

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Casaubon as having a mind so much above her own, that he must often be claimed by studies which she could not entirely share; moreover, after the brief narrow experience of her girlhood she was beholding Rome, the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Dorothea had now been five weeks in Rome, and in the kindly mornings when autumn and winter seemed to go hand in hand like a happy aged couple one of whom would presently survive in chiller loneliness, she had driven about at first with Mr.

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