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Romance   /roʊmˈæns/  /rˈoʊmæns/   Listen
noun
Romance  n.  
1.
A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like. "Romances that been royal." "Upon these three columns chivalry, gallantry, and religion repose the fictions of the Middle Ages, especially those known as romances. These, such as we now know them, and such as display the characteristics above mentioned, were originally metrical, and chiefly written by nations of the north of France."
2.
An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.
3.
A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.
4.
The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages).
5.
(Mus.) A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
6.
A love affair, esp. one in which the lovers display their deep affection openly, by romantic gestures.
Synonyms: Fable; novel; fiction; tale.


verb
Romance  v. i.  (past & past part. romanced; pres. part. romancing)  To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories. "A very brave officer, but apt to romance."


adjective
Romance  adj.  Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.





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"Romance" Quotes from Famous Books



... Because the Goddess of Gifts had become associated in his mind with the first day he could remember in his early childhood—a radiant and merry day—he had come to identify with her this Lady of the Spring, who alone gave romance to the harsher, soberer years that followed his father's death. To-day Marcus could have sworn she smiled at him before she disappeared, as the water receded after the gushing flow which he had come just in time to watch. He was rising from his knees when his eye fell upon a strange, ...
— Roads from Rome • Anne C. E. Allinson
... celebrated and beautiful Italian poems, the "Jerusalem Delivered" of Tasso, has "the pious Godfrey" for the presiding hero of the glorious scenes which it narrates. But there are no grounds for supposing that his fame belongs to romance rather than history. Contemporary writers have painted his portrait in no less flattering colors than Tasso has used, and the poet's affectionate fancy has scarcely exaggerated the tribute which the soberest historian may feel warranted in rendering ...
— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 • Various
... of legend and of the romantic and adventurous spirit (the sowing of the modern seed) coincides with places where the great mass of barbaric slaves are settled, or where the fewer barbaric pillagers or the regular barbaric soldiers in the Roman Army pass. Romance appears hundreds of years later, and it appears more immediately and earliest in connection with precisely those districts in which the passage of the few Teutonic, Slavonic and other barbarians had ...
— Europe and the Faith - "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" • Hilaire Belloc
... more strongly urged to other flights. Thus it came to pass that I did I not take the time of Hadrian for the background of a tale till after I had dealt with the still later period of the early monastic move in "Homo Sum." Since finishing that romance my old wish to depict, in the form of a story, the most important epoch of the history of that venerable nation to which I have devoted nearly a quarter century of my life, has found its fulfilment. I have endeavored to give a picture of the splendor of the Pharaonic ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... was concealed, and affecting to treat the whole matter as a capital joke, worthy of being immortalized in romance, she returned to her room, and hastily writing a few lines, rang the bell for Caesar who soon appeared, declaring that "as true as he lived and breathed and drew the breath of life, he'd done gin miss every single letter afore handin' 'em to ...
— 'Lena Rivers • Mary J. Holmes


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