liquidation
settlement | termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities |
viatical settlement
viaticus settlement | sale of an insurance policy by a terminally ill policy holder |
| Greco-Roman wrestling | a style of wrestling where the wrestlers are forbidden to tackle or trip or use holds below the waist |
colonization
colonisation
settlement | the act of colonizing, the establishment of colonies, the British colonization of America |
| basilica Roman basilica | a Roman building used for public administration |
clerical collar
Roman collar
dog collar | a stiff white collar with no opening in the front, a distinctive symbol of the clergy |
| Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
Roman arch
semicircular arch | a round arch drawn from a single center |
| Roman building | a building constructed by the ancient Romans |
| Roman candle | a cylindrical firework that projects a series of colored balls of fire |
| settlement house | a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services |
Roman nose
hooknose | a nose with a prominent slightly aquiline bridge |
settlement
resolution closure | something settled or resolved, the outcome of decision making, they finally reached a settlement with the union, they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences, he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure |
classical architecture
Greco-Roman architecture | architecture influenced by the ancient Greeks or Romans |
| Roman architecture | the architecture of ancient Rome |
Romanism
Roman Catholicism
papism | the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome |
| roman a clef | a novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters |
| roman fleuve | a French novel in the form of a long chronicle of a family or other social group |
Roman alphabet
Latin alphabet | the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe |
marriage contract
marriage settlement | a prenuptial agreement or contract |
Roman law
Justinian code
civil law jus civile | the legal code of ancient Rome, codified under Justinian, the basis for many modern systems of civil law |
| Roman numeral | a symbol in the old Roman notation, I,V,X,L,C,D,M represent ,,,,,, respectively in Arabic notation |
roman roman type
roman letters
roman print | a typeface used in ancient Roman inscriptions |
| settlement | a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it |
| out-ofourt settlement | resolution of a dispute prior to the rendering of a final decision by the trial court |
| property settlement | (matrimonial law) the division of property owned or acquired by marriage partners during their marriage |
| Prix de Rome | an annual prize awarded by the French government in a competition of painters and artists and sculptors and musicians and architects, the winner in each category receives support for a period of study in Rome |
| Empire | an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh, used as both an eating and a cooking apple |
| Rome Beauty | large red apple used primarily for baking |
| Roman mythology | the mythology of the ancient Romans |
| empire | a group of countries under a single authority, the British created a great empire |
conglomerate
empire | a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization |
publishing conglomerate
publishing empire | a conglomerate of publishing companies |
Roman Catholic
Western Church
Roman Catholic Church
Church of Rome
Roman Church | the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy |
| Rome | the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Holy Roman Empire | a political entity in Europe that began with the papal coronation of Otto I as the first emperor in and lasted untilwhen it was dissolved by Napoleon |
Hohenzollern empire
Second Reich | the Reich when Hohenzollern monarchs ruled Germany (from to ) |
| Roman Legion | a division of from to men (including cavalry) in the Roman army |
village
small town
settlement | a community of people smaller than a town |
Roman Inquisition
Congregation of the Inquisition | an inquisition set up in Italy in to curb the number of Protestants, it was the Roman Inquisition that put Galileo on trial |
colony
settlement | a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland, inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government, the American colony in Paris |
frontier settlement
outpost | a settlement on the frontier of civilization |
| empire | a monarchy with an emperor as head of state |
| Mogul empire | an empire established by the Mogul conquerors of India that reigned from to |
| Second Empire | the imperial government of Napoleon III in France from - |
empire
imperium | the domain ruled by an emperor or empress, the region over which imperial dominion is exercised |
| settlement | an area where a group of families live together |
| Seven Hills of Rome | the hills on which the ancient city of Rome was built |
| Roman Republic | the ancient Roman state fromBC until Augustus assumed power in BC, was governed by an elected Senate but dissatisfaction with the Senate led to civil wars that culminated in a brief dictatorship by Julius Caesar |
| Roman Empire | an empire established by Augustus in BC and divided in AD 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 |