romance

Meaning of romance

noun
  1. a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love.
    I had a thirst for romance
  2. a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life.
    the romance of the sea
  3. a medieval tale dealing with a hero of chivalry, of the kind common in the Romance languages.
    the Arthurian romances
  4. a work of fiction depicting a setting and events remote from everyday life, especially one of a kind popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
    Elizabethan pastoral romances
  5. a short informal piece.
    the romance from The Gadfly became a popular favourite
verb
  1. try to gain the love of; court.
    the wealthy estate owner romanced her
  2. another term for romanticize.
    to a certain degree I am romancing the past

Middle English: from Romance, originally denoting a composition in the vernacular as opposed to works in Latin. Early use denoted vernacular verse on the theme of chivalry; the sense ‘genre centred on romantic love’ dates from the mid 17th century.

adjective
  1. relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages descended from Latin, principally French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Occitan, and Romanian.
    the Romance languages

noun

the Romance languages considered as a group.

Middle English (originally denoting the vernacular language of France as opposed to Latin): from Old French romanz, based on Latin Romanicus ‘Roman’.

Information about romance

Hyphenation of romance

ro-mance

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • romance is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

romance synonyms

Meaning Romance:

Romance, Latin

Meaning romanticism:

romanticism

Meaning woo:

woo, court, solicit

Meaning chat up:

flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, philander, mash

Meaning secrecy or obscurity:

mystery

Meaning an attractive or exciting quality that makes certain people or things seem appealing:

glamour

Meaning a feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness:

excitement

Meaning the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light:

colour

Meaning the quality of being attractive or striking through being colourful or unusual:

exoticism

Meaning a quality of mystery, glamour, or power associated with someone or something:

mystique

Meaning a serious, urgent, or heartfelt request:

appeal

Meaning the quality of being powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating:

allure

Meaning the power to fascinate someone; the quality of being fascinating:

fascination

Meaning the power or quality of delighting, attracting, or fascinating others:

charm

Translation of romance

Anagrams of romance

Cameron, cameron, Cremona, cremona, Menorca, Moncear

Words that rhyme with romance

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