Rome

Pronunciation

• (UK), enPR: rōm, IPA ^(key): /rəʊm/, SAMPA: /r@Um/
• (US), enPR: rōm, IPA ^(key): /roʊm/, SAMPA: /roUm/

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Proper noun

Proper noun Rome

The red dot shows where Rome is in Italy

The Roman Empire (Rome)

1. Rome is the capital city of Italy.

   It is noon at the U.N. headquarters in New York, 6:00 p.m. in Rome, Italy.

2. Rome is the Roman Empire, an empire that existed between 85 BC and AD 476 and covered much of the southern Europe and some of northern Africa.

   Most of our great ideas are rooted in Greece and Rome.

   Visitors are transported back 2,000 years in time to experience life and death in ancient Rome.

Related words

• Roman
• roman
• Church of Rome