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- 1 Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, etc.
"In this paper we will concentrate on the problem posed by Iberian Romance languages (i.e. Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish), …"
- 1 relating to languages derived from Latin wordnet
- 1 An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair. countable, uncountable
"Everybody's working for the weekend Everybody wants a new romance."
- 2 The group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin. uncountable
"The Romance languages are normally grouped along broad geographical lines into Italo-Romance (Italian dialects, with a standard based on Tuscan); Gallo-Romance (French and Provençal); Hispano-Romance (Castilian Spanish, Catalan as less widely recognized standard, and Portuguese); Rhaeto-Romance (Romansh, Ladin, and Friulian); and Balkan Romance (Dalmatian, now extinct, and Romanian). [...] Proto-Romance was a purely spoken language, and we should at least in principle keep it separate from Vulgar Latin."
- 3 an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) wordnet
- 4 A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone. countable, uncountable
- 5 a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life wordnet
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- 6 Idealized love which is pure or beautiful. countable, uncountable
- 7 a story dealing with love wordnet
- 8 A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship. countable, uncountable
- 9 the group of languages derived from Latin wordnet
- 10 A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc. countable, uncountable
"`Will you undertake the task? We give you complete freedom, and as a reward you will, we believe, have the credit of presenting to the world the most wonderful history, as distinguished from romance, that its records can show.'"
- 11 a relationship between two lovers wordnet
- 12 A tale of high adventure. countable, uncountable
"Could one have known the past histories of some of the oddly-selected couples who shared everything in common, many a romance might have been written during what, to all outward appearances, was a dull and prosaic time to most lookers-on!"
- 13 A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality. countable, uncountable
- 14 A literary or filmic genre about idealized love. countable, uncountable
- 15 An embellished account of something; an idealized lie. countable, uncountable
- 16 An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances. countable, uncountable
"His life was a romance."
- 17 A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real. countable, uncountable
"She was so full of romance she would forget what she was supposed to be doing."
- 18 A sentimental piece of music; a romanza. countable, uncountable
- 1 To woo; to court. transitive
"A female Shepard can romance bisexual Yeoman Kelly Chambers, but doing so does not yield a Paramour achievement or an implied sex scene the way that romancing ‘official’ interests does. Similarly, the player can attempt to romance the Asari Samara or her Ardat-Yakshi daughter Morinth, but the former will refuse and sex with the latter will kill Shepard."
- 2 tell romantic or exaggerated lies wordnet
- 3 To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc. intransitive
- 4 talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions wordnet
- 5 To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air. intransitive
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- 6 have a love affair with wordnet
- 7 make amorous advances towards wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman language”, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus (“roman”, adjective) from rōmānus (“a Roman”). Doublet of Romansch.
From Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman language”, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus (“roman”, adjective) from rōmānus (“a Roman”). Doublet of Romansch.
From Old French romanz (“vernacular language (of France)”), from Late Latin rōmānicē, from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus + -icus. Extended in the 17th century to all languages derived from Latin.
From Old French romanz (“vernacular language (of France)”), from Late Latin rōmānicē, from Latin rōmānicus < rōmānus + -icus. Extended in the 17th century to all languages derived from Latin.
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