romance
Forms
- Plural
- romances
- present (v1)
- romance
- past (v2)
- romanced
- past participle (v3)
- romanced
- present participle
- romancing
- 3rd person singular
- romances
Definitions
1.An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
2.A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
3.Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
4.A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
1.To woo; to court.
- In the ghetto, the gentle Barber romances a defiant washerwoman, Hannah, who is played by Chaplin's wife at the time, Paulette Goddard.
2.To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
3.To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.
1.Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, etc.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4118
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
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”).