The Collaborative International Dictionary
Roumanian \Rou*ma"ni*an\, n. An inhabitant of Roumania; also, the language of Roumania, one of the Romance or Romanic languages descended from Latin, but containing many words from other languages, as Slavic, Turkish, and Greek. [Written also Rumanian and Romanian.]
Roumanian \Rou*ma"ni*an\, a. [Written also Rumanian and Romanian.] [From Roumania, the name of the country, Roumanian Rom[^a]nia, fr. Rom[^a]n Roumanian, L. Romanus Roman.] Of or pertaining to Roumania.
Usage examples of "roumanian".
Races other than the Turkish, whose immigration in 1914 was more than one-third illiterate, include the Dalmatians, Bosnians, Herzegovinians, Russians, Ruthenians, Italians, Lithuanians, and Roumanians.
We saw in this a way of smoothing matters, so at Fundu, where the Bistritza runs into the Sereth, we got a Roumanian flag which we now fly conspicuously.
Elaine stood in the ball-room surrounded by a laughing jostling throng of pierrots, jockeys, Dresden-china shepherdesses, Roumanian peasant-girls and all the lively make-believe creatures that form the ingredients of a fancy-dress ball.
For a long time we could not find out how certain pernicious articles, injurious to the good reputation of Roumanian, found their way into the English and American press.
To get her here, then to close on Philip and Anna a trap which had no doubt long ago been set, and finally to use them as a lever in order to force her, Rosemary, to write those articles which would sooth the vanity of Roumanian bureaucrats and throw dust in the eyes of the sentimental public.
These Roumanians plague me damnably, being officious and particular where you cou'd buy a Magyar off with a Drinke and Food.
He was going to captain the Roumanian team, and Payson was captaining the Hungarians.
Peter Blakeney, disguised as a Roumanian officer, and having with him Captain Payson and a young Hungarian cricketer, both dressed as Roumanian soldiers, had presented a forged order for the surrender of the two prisoners, Philip Imrey and Anna Heves.
The Saxon, Galician, Roumanian and Russian varieties all yield 4 to 5 per cent of volatile oil, and these varieties are alone suitable for pharmaceutical use.