romance

Found in thesaurus: relationship, quality, latin, story, novel, move, act, love, talk, speak, lie

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romance

n. love affair, amour; tall tale, tale filled with exaggeration; narrative or poem about chivalry and/or heroic adventures (esp. from the Middle Ages)

v. have a love affair with; tell stories filled with exaggeration, tell tall tales

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Romance

Romance or romantic usually refers to romance (love), love emphasizing emotion over libido. It may also refer to:

Genres

Hellenistic romance, or Ancient Greek romance, a modern term for the genre of the five surviving Ancient Greek novels
Chivalric Romance, a genre of medieval and Renaissance narrative fiction
Romance (music), a type of ballad or lyrical song
- Romancero, the corpus of such Spanish ballads, or a collection of them
- Romance (meter), a metric pattern found in Spanish ballads
Romanticism, or the Romantic period/era, an artistic and intellectual movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including
- Romantic music, the musical style used by Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Wagner and other late 18th and 19th-century composers
- Romantic poetry, the poetic style used by Schiller, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth and other late 18th and 19th-century poets
- Romanticism in science, a movement in science during the Romantic period
Romance novel, a genre of novel that focuses on romantic love
Romance film, a genre of film of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the protagonists
Romantic comedy film, a hybrid genre of film centered on a comic romantic relationship
Shakespeare's late romances, the later plays of Shakespeare that mix tragic and comedic elements

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Romance

Noun
1. the group of languages derived from Latin
(synonym) Romance language, Latinian language
(hypernym) Latin
(hyponym) Haitian Creole

Adjective
1. relating to languages derived from Latin; "Romance languages"
(synonym) Latin
(pertainym) Romance, Romance language, Latinian language

romance

Noun
1. a relationship between two lovers
(synonym) love affair
(hypernym) relationship
(hyponym) intrigue
(derivation) chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, philander, mash
2. an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
(synonym) romanticism
(hypernym) quality
(hyponym) stardust
3. a story dealing with love
(synonym) love story
(hypernym) story
(derivation) chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, philander, mash
4. a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
(hypernym) novel
(hyponym) Gothic romance

Verb
1. make amorous advances towards; "John is courting Mary"
(synonym) woo, court, solicit
(hypernym) act, move
(hyponym) chase, chase after
(derivation) love story
2. have a love affair with
(hypernym) love
(derivation) love story
3. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"
(synonym) chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, philander, mash
(hypernym) talk, speak
(hyponym) wanton
(derivation) love story
4. tell romantic or exaggerated lies; "This author romanced his trip to an exotic country"
(hypernym) lie

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romance

nf. ballad, romance

romancer

v. romanticize, make romantic; hold romantic ideas about something

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romance

adj. romance

romance

nm. ballad, sentimental song that tells a story, narrative poem adapted for singing; Romanic; romance languages, general name for European languages based on the early Italian languages such as Latin

romanizar

v. romanize, make Roman in character or spirit; make Roman Catholic