romance
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman language”, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus (“roman”, adjective) from rōmānus (“a Roman”). Doublet of Romansch.
Inflected forms:
form: romances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: romances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: romancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: romanced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: romanced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Everybody's working for the weekend
Everybody wants a new romance.
gloss: A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: `Will you undertake the task? We give you complete freedom, and as a reward you will, we believe, have the credit of presenting to the world the most wonderful history, as distinguished from romance, that its records can show.'
gloss: A tale of high adventure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Could one have known the past histories of some of the oddly-selected couples who shared everything in common, many a romance might have been written during what, to all outward appearances, was a dull and prosaic time to most lookers-on!
gloss: A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the romance of cruising down the Nile.
There's a comforting romance to the space—the chalky white walls, the soaring ceilings, the natural light flooding in through the windows, all of which create a warm, flattering glow.
gloss: A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His life was a romance.
gloss: A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She was so full of romance she would forget what she was supposed to be doing.
gloss: A sentimental piece of music; a romanza.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To woo; to court.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A female Shepard can romance bisexual Yeoman Kelly Chambers, but doing so does not yield a Paramour achievement or an implied sex scene the way that romancing ‘official’ interests does. Similarly, the player can attempt to romance the Asari Samara or her Ardat-Yakshi daughter Morinth, but the former will refuse and sex with the latter will kill Shepard.
In the ghetto, the gentle Barber romances a defiant washerwoman, Hannah, who is played by Chaplin's wife at the time, Paulette Goddard.
gloss: To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: put the moves on
solicit
Antonyms: platonic
platonic relationship
platonic love
nonromance
antiromance
Derived words: autumn romance
bromance
crimance
cyberromance
dark romance
erom
family romance
fauxmance
gaslight romance
May-December romance
May-September romance
metahistorical romance
outromance
paranormal romance
photo-romance
romaction
romanceable
romance fraud
romanceful
Romancelandia
romanceless
romancelet
romancelike
romance scam
romance tourism
romance tourist
romancey
romance zone
romancical
romancist
romancy
romantasy
romantic
romantica
romantopia
scientific romance
showmance
sismance
sweet savage romance
thrillmance
womance
romancing the bone
unromanced
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