a love affair, esp an intense and happy but short-lived affair

love, esp romantic love idealized for its purity or beauty

a spirit of or inclination for adventure, excitement, or mystery

a mysterious, exciting, sentimental, or nostalgic quality, esp one associated with a place

a narrative in verse or prose, written in a vernacular language in the Middle Ages, dealing with strange and exciting adventures of chivalrous heroes

any similar narrative work dealing with events and characters remote from ordinary life

the literary genre represented by works of these kinds

(in Spanish literature) a short narrative poem, usually an epic or historical ballad

a story, novel, film, etc, dealing with love, usually in an idealized or sentimentalway

an extravagant, absurd, or fantastic account or explanation

a lyrical song or short instrumental composition having a simple melody

to tell, invent, or write extravagant or romantic fictions

to tell extravagant or improbable lies

to have romantic thoughts

(of a couple) to indulge in romantic behaviour

to be romantically involved with

denoting, relating to, or belonging to the languages derived from Latin, including Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Romanian

denoting a word borrowed from a Romance language

this group of languages; the living languages that belong to the Italic branch of the Indo-European family