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ROMANCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Romance mean?
• ROMANCE (noun)
The noun ROMANCE has 5 senses:
1. a relationship between two lovers
2. an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
3. the group of languages derived from Latin
4. a story dealing with love
5. a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
Familiarity information: ROMANCE used as a noun is common.
• ROMANCE (adjective)
The adjective ROMANCE has 1 sense:
1. relating to languages derived from Latin
Familiarity information: ROMANCE used as an adjective is very rare.
• ROMANCE (verb)
The verb ROMANCE has 4 senses:
1. make amorous advances towards
2. have a love affair with
3. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
4. tell romantic or exaggerated lies
Familiarity information: ROMANCE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A relationship between two lovers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
love affair; romance
Hypernyms ("romance" is a kind of...):
relationship (a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "romance"):
intrigue (a clandestine love affair)
Derivation:
romantic (expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance)
romance (make amorous advances towards)
romance (have a love affair with)
romance (talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
romance; romanticism
Hypernyms ("romance" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "romance"):
stardust (a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality)
Derivation:
romance (tell romantic or exaggerated lies)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The group of languages derived from Latin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Latinian language; Romance; Romance language
Hypernyms ("Romance" is a kind of...):
Latin (any dialect of the language of ancient Rome)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Romance"):
Spanish (the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain)
Romanian; Rumanian (an eastern Romance language spoken in Romania)
Rhaeto-Romance; Rhaeto-Romanic (Romance dialects spoken in parts of southeastern Switzerland and northern Italy and the Tyrol)
Catalan (the Romance language spoken in Catalonia in eastern Spain (related to Spanish and Occitan))
Galician (a language spoken in Galicia, an Autonomus Community of Spain)
Portuguese (the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil)
French (the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France)
Italian (the Romance language spoken in Italy)
Haitian Creole (a creole language spoken by most Haitians; based on French and various African languages)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A story dealing with love
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
love story; romance
Hypernyms ("romance" is a kind of...):
story (a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events)
Derivation:
romance (talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions)
romance (have a love affair with)
romance (make amorous advances towards)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("romance" is a kind of...):
novel (an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "romance"):
Gothic romance (a romance that deals with desolate and mysterious and grotesque events)
bodice ripper (a romantic novel containing scenes in which the heroine is sexually violated)
Derivation:
romance (tell romantic or exaggerated lies)
romantic (not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to languages derived from Latin
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
Latin; Romance
Context example:
Romance languages
Pertainym:
Romance (the group of languages derived from Latin)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make amorous advances towards
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
Context example:
John is courting Mary
Hypernyms (to "romance" is one way to...):
act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "romance"):
chase; chase after (pursue someone sexually or romantically)
display (attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Sam cannot romance Sue
Derivation:
romance (a story dealing with love)
romance (a relationship between two lovers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Have a love affair with
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Hypernyms (to "romance" is one way to...):
love (be enamored or in love with)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Sam cannot romance Sue
Derivation:
romance (a story dealing with love)
romance (a relationship between two lovers)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
butterfly; chat up; coquet; coquette; dally; flirt; mash; philander; romance
Context example:
My husband never flirts with other women
Hypernyms (to "romance" is one way to...):
speak; talk (exchange thoughts; talk with)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "romance"):
wanton (engage in amorous play)
vamp (act seductively with (someone))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
romance (a story dealing with love)
romance (a relationship between two lovers)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Tell romantic or exaggerated lies
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Context example:
This author romanced his trip to an exotic country
Hypernyms (to "romance" is one way to...):
lie (tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
romance (an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure))
romance (a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life)
Context examples
Now let’s turn to the topic of love and romance.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
"Now, Marmee, that is very cunning of you to turn our own stories against us, and give us a sermon instead of a romance!" cried Meg.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The romance, and beauty, and high vigor of the books were coming true.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The anxieties of common life began soon to succeed to the alarms of romance.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He has not been able to get the Romance of the Forest yet.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
For as to secrecy, Henry is quite the hero of an old romance, and glories in his chains.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there's no room for romance anywhere.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Life is commonplace, the papers are sterile; audacity and romance seem to have passed forever from the criminal world.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Shorn of its glamour and romance, Arctic travel became to them a reality too harsh for their manhood and womanhood.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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