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Romance   /roʊmˈæns/  /rˈoʊmæns/   Listen
Romance

noun
1.
A relationship between two lovers.  Synonym: love affair.
2.
An exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure).  Synonym: romanticism.
3.
The group of languages derived from Latin.  Synonyms: Latinian language, Romance language.
4.
A story dealing with love.  Synonym: love story.
5.
A novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life.
verb
(past & past part. romanced; pres. part. romancing)
1.
Make amorous advances towards.  Synonyms: court, solicit, woo.
2.
Have a love affair with.
3.
Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions.  Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander.  "My husband never flirts with other women"
4.
Tell romantic or exaggerated lies.
adjective
1.
Relating to languages derived from Latin.  Synonym: Latin.



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Romance language
Gothic romance
Rhaeto-Romance


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"Romance" Quotes from Famous Books



... stood silent, gazing out into the gloom of the vast solitudes that swept unbroken to Hudson Bay. Again Rod's blood was thrilled with the romance of what lay at his feet and far beyond, thrilled with the romance and mystery of that land of the wild which reached for hundreds of miles into the North, and into which the foot of the white man had as yet ...
— The Gold Hunters - A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds • James Oliver Curwood
... with its wicker tables and chairs, and soft lights, glowing pinkly, to simulate night in the broad light of afternoon outside. A fountain splashed soothingly in the centre. Everything was done to lend to the place an exotic air of romance. ...
— The Gold of the Gods • Arthur B. Reeve
... truth, I am not sure that too much prudent self-restraint suits love and its purport. Romance and deliberate self-control do not, to my mind, rhyme very well together. A touch of madness to begin with does no harm. Heaven knows life sobers it soon enough. If you don't start life with a head of steam ...
— Love--Marriage--Birth Control - Being a Speech delivered at the Church Congress at - Birmingham, October, 1921 • Bertrand Dawson
... epoch. But we can easily see in what sense Pope's work fairly deserves the name. The poets of an older period frankly adopted the classical mythology without any apparent sense of incongruity. They mix heathen deities with Christian saints, and the ancient heroes adopt the manners of chivalrous romance without the slightest difficulty. The freedom was still granted to the writers of the renaissance. Milton makes Phoebus and St. Peter discourse in successive stanzas, as if they belonged to the same pantheon. For poetical purposes the old gods are simply canonized ...
— Alexander Pope - English Men of Letters Series • Leslie Stephen
... romance I ever heard of. I'll tell you what: you'd better have the final transfer made ...
— The Talking Leaves - An Indian Story • William O. Stoddard


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