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| ro·mance [ rō mánss ] |
noun (plural ro·manc·es) |
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1. love affair: a love affair, especially a brief and intense one
  This is more than just a holiday romance.
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2. physical love: sexual love, especially when the other person or the relationship is idealized or when it is exciting and intense
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3. spirit of adventure: a spirit or feeling of adventure, excitement, the potential for heroic achievement, and the exotic
the romance of cruising down the Nile
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4. fascination with something: a fascination or enthusiasm for something, especially of an uncritical or inexplicable kind
his lifelong romance with football
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5. story of love: a novel, movie, or play with a love story as its main theme
a writer of cheap romances
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6. love stories collectively: love stories considered as a genre
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7. medieval adventure story: a story of the adventures of chivalrous heroes written in verse or prose in a vernacular language in the Middle Ages
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8. medieval adventure stories collectively: the genre of medieval adventure stories
Arthurian romance
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9. narrative of adventures: a fictional narrative dealing with exciting and extravagant adventures
a romance of piracy on the high seas
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10. fictitious account: an extravagant or absurd fictitious account of something
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11. music short lyrical piece: a short lyrical song or instrumental composition, usually expressing or evoking tender emotions
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verb (past and past participle ro·manced, present participle ro·manc·ing, 3rd person present singular ro·manc·es) |
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1. intransitive verb tell adventurous stories: to tell or write extravagant or idealized fictitious accounts
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2. intransitive verb tell love stories: to tell or write stories about love
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3. intransitive verb think romantically: to think or behave in a romantic way
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4. transitive verb treat somebody romantically: to treat somebody in a special way during a love relationship or with a view to entering on one
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5. transitive verb have affair with somebody: to have a love affair with somebody
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| [13th century. < Old French romanz "(work composed) in French" < assumed Vulgar Latin romanice "in the vernacular," form of Latin romanicus "Roman" < Roma "Rome"] |
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