roman empire
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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 (noun.location)
| instance hypernym | : | empire, imperium, |
| definition | : | the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised (noun.location) |
| part meronym | : | africa, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | asia, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | europe, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.object) |
| member holonym | : | roman, |
| definition | : | an inhabitant of the ancient Roman Empire (noun.person) |
| domain member region | : | ancients, |
| definition | : | people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe) (noun.group) |
| domain member region | : | prefecture, |
| definition | : | the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire) (noun.location) |
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