Meaning of Romance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
   countable, uncountable
2. The group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin.
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3. The group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
4. A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
   countable, uncountable
5. Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, etc
6. Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
   countable, uncountable
7. A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
   countable, uncountable
8. A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
   countable, uncountable
9. A tale of high adventure.
   countable, uncountable
10. A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
    countable, uncountable
11. A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.
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12. An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
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13. An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
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14. A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
    countable, uncountable
15. A sentimental piece of music; a romanza.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Everybody's working for the weekend Everybody wants a new romance.”

“`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.'”

“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!”

“His life was a romance.”

“She was so full of romance she would forget what she was supposed to be doing.”

“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.”

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