romance

1. 1

   An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.countableuncountable

   • Everybody's working for the weekend Everybody wants a new romance.
2. 2

   A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.countableuncountable

3. 3

   Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.countableuncountable

4. 4

   A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.countableuncountable

5. 5

   A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.countableuncountable

   • `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.'
6. 6

   A tale of high adventure.countableuncountable

   • 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!
7. 7

   A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.countableuncountable

   • the romance of cruising down the Nile.
8. 8

   A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.countableuncountable

9. 9

   An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.countableuncountable

10. 10

    An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.countableuncountable

    • His life was a romance.

ant. platonic · platonic relationship · platonic love · nonromance · antiromance

1. 1

   To woo; to court.transitive

   • In the ghetto, the gentle Barber romances a defiant washerwoman, Hannah, who is played by Chaplin's wife at the time, Paulette Goddard.
2. 2

   To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.intransitive

3. 3

   To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.intransitive

syn. put the moves on · solicit