Romanization
Americannoun
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the act or process of making Roman Catholic.
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Sometimes, romanization. the act or process of making Roman in character.
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Usually, romanization. the act, process, or result of rendering in the Latin alphabet something written with a different system, such as Korean, Russian, or Hindi.
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The process of Romanization in Gaul shaped the unique culture that developed there.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
A linguist considered the father of modern China’s Pinyin Romanization system.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2017
Other Romanization systems had been tried before, beginning with one developed in the late 1500s by Jesuit missionaries from Europe.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2017
The leaker began posting the data on Twitter late Wednesday night using the handle @shenfenzheng, a Romanization of the Mandarin word for ID card.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2016
The last step in the Romanization of the provincial towns was Caracalla’s edict of 212 A. D. which conferred Roman citizenship upon all non-Roman municipalities throughout the empire.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
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