noun
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 (Freq. 4)
• Syn: ↑Roma, ↑Eternal City, ↑Italian capital, ↑capital of Italy
• Members of this Region:
↑Roman, ↑Romanic, ↑lustrum, ↑catacomb, ↑circus, ↑pantheon, ↑toga virilis, ↑Bacchus, ↑augur, ↑auspex, ↑centurion, ↑gladiator, ↑pontifex, ↑procurator, ↑sibyl, ↑tribune
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑national capital
• Part Holonyms: ↑Italy, ↑Italian Republic, ↑Italia
• Member Meronyms: ↑Roman
• Part Meronyms:
↑Colosseum, ↑Amphitheatrum Flavium, ↑Sistine Chapel, ↑Seven Hills of Rome, ↑Lateran, ↑Holy See, ↑The Holy See, ↑State of the Vatican City
2. the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church (Freq. 2)
• Hypernyms: ↑leadership, ↑leaders
• Part Holonyms: ↑Roman Catholic, ↑Western Church, ↑Roman Catholic Church, ↑Church of Rome, ↑Roman Church
Useful english dictionary. 2012.