romance1 nounromance2 verb
romancero‧mance1 /rəʊˈmæns, ˈrəʊmæns $ roʊˈmæns, ˈroʊ-/ ●●○ noun 
WORD ORIGINromance1
Origin:
1200-1300 Old French romans ‘French, something written in French’, from Latin romanicus ‘Roman’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- It was a beautiful summer romance, but they knew it couldn't last.
- My romance with Lois did not survive our high school graduation.
- Richard and Penny had made no great secret of their romance, even though they were both married.
- Some viewers objected to the interracial romance the show portrays.
- the romance of life in the Wild West
- As the romance proceeded, she became restless.
- Evening is a good time for friendships and romance, but do not be too intense.
- In the other local superstores, people have only one thing on their minds, but it is not romance.
- Invariably, romances form aboard the plane.
- Most married women surveyed said they were not victims of love at first sight and not moved to marriage by romance.
- The romance of the movies was to a significant degree an entrepreneurial romance.
- The connection between ancient houses and mysteries of a shameful kind has its origin in Gothic romance.
- When I heard the word goons, it became no longer a matter of romance but a war of wills.
THESAURUS
noun [uncountable] a feeling of liking someone very much and caring a lot about them – used about people in your family, or someone you feel sexually attracted to: · All children need love, attention, and encouragement.· We don’t need words to express our love for each other.
noun [uncountable] a gentle feeling of love which makes you want to be kind to someone and show them that you love them – used especially about friends and members of your family: · My mother never showed us us any affection.· Alison and I had been at school together, and I felt great affection for her.
noun [uncountable] very strong love for someone in which you want to give them a lot of attention and look after them – used especially about strong feelings of love for your wife, husband, children etc: · His recovery is largely due to the devotion of his wife and family
noun [uncountable] a strong and exciting feeling of love for someone you are extremely sexually attracted to: · He loved her still, with just the same passion as he always had.· There was no passion in their relationship.
noun [countable, uncountable] a strong feeling of love for someone, in which you cannot stop thinking about them, and which seems silly because you do not know them very well: · She hoped that his ridiculous infatuation would soon wear off.· His infatuation with Diane seemed to be growing.· a childhood infatuation
noun [uncountable] the feeling of loving someone and the nice things you do to show this – used about someone you are sexually attracted to: · The romance had gone out of their relationship.· In the UK, one in ten people have found romance over the Internet.
noun [countable] a very strong feeling of love and sexual attraction for someone such as a teacher or a famous person, especially when there is no chance of you having a relationship with that person because you are much younger than them: · She had a teenage crush on one of her teachers.· I had a big crush on Tom Cruise when I was growing up.· a schoolgirl crush
when two people spend time together or live together because they are romantically or sexually attracted to each other: · After her marriage broke up, she had a series of disastrous relationships.relationship with: · I don’t want to start a relationship with her, because I’m going back to South Africa.relationship between: · Relationships between people of different cultures are often extremely difficult.be in a relationship: · Why are all the interesting men I meet already in relationships?sexual relationship: · Several of the psychiatrists admitted to having sexual relationships with patients.romantic relationship: · Even at 35, Bobby seemed unable to commit to a romantic relationship.
a secret sexual relationship between two people, when one or both of them is married to someone else: · The affair had been going on for years before her husband found out.affair with: · I had no idea that Mike had an affair with Carolyn!love affair: · Burton had been involved in a love affair with a woman who ended up taking most of his money.
a short and not very serious relationship: · Yes, I did go out with him, but it was just a fling.· She wasn’t interested in anything more than a casual fling.fling with: · She left her husband after she learned about his fling with an exotic dancer.have a fling: · They had a fling years ago.
an exciting and often short relationship between two people who feel very much in love with each other: · It was a beautiful summer romance, but they knew it couldn’t last.· Richard and Penny had made no great secret of their romance, even though they were both married.romance with: · My romance with Lois did not survive our high school graduation.
Longman Language Activatorstories, films etc about love a story about two people who are in love with each other: · The book is very exciting, as well as being a wonderful love story.· a well-known writer of popular romances
a romantic story or film is about people who are in love: · a romantic comedy in which Meg Ryan plays a single mother looking for love
a romantic or sexual relationship when two people spend time together or live together because they are romantically or sexually attracted to each other: · After her marriage broke up, she had a series of disastrous relationships.relationship with: · I don't want to start a relationship with her, because I'm going back to South Africa.relationship between: · Relationships between people of different cultures are often extremely difficult.be in a relationship: · Why are all the interesting men I meet already in relationships?sexual relationship: · Several of the psychiatrists admitted to having sexual relationships with patients.romantic relationship: · Even at 35, Bobby seemed unable to commit to a romantic relationship.
a secret sexual relationship between two people, when one or both of them is married to someone else: · The affair had been going on for years before her husband found out.affair with: · I had no idea that Mike had an affair with Carolyn!love affair: · Burton had been involved in a love affair with a woman who ended up taking most of his money.
a short and not very serious relationship: · Yes, I did go out with him, but it was just a fling.· She wasn't interested in anything more than a casual fling.fling with: · She left her husband after she learned about his fling with an exotic dancer.have a fling: · They had a fling years ago.
an exciting and often short relationship between two people who feel very much in love with each other: · It was a beautiful summer romance, but they knew it couldn't last.· Richard and Penny had made no great secret of their romance, even though they were both married.romance with: · My romance with Lois did not survive our high school graduation.
WORD SETSacrostic, nounadapt, verballiteration, nounanagram, nounannual, nounanthology, nounantihero, nounapologia, nounappendix, nounassonance, nounauthorship, nounautobiography, nounballad, nounbard, nounbathos, nounbiography, nounblank verse, nounbowdlerize, verbburlesque, nouncaesura, nouncameo, nouncanon, nouncanto, nouncaricature, nounchapter, nouncharacterization, nouncitation, nounclimax, nounclimax, verbcoda, nouncollected, adjectiveconceit, nouncorpus, nouncouplet, nouncritique, noundactyl, noundeclamatory, adjectivedeconstruction, noundense, adjectivedevice, noundialogue, noundiarist, noundiction, noundigest, noundoggerel, noundraft, noundraft, verbdrama, noundub, nounelegy, nounending, nounepic, adjectiveepigram, nounepilogue, nounepistolary, adjectiveepitaph, nounessay, nounessayist, nouneulogy, nounexegesis, nounfable, nounfairy tale, nounfantasy, nounfiction, nounfictional, adjectivefirst edition, nounfirst person, nounflashback, nounflorid, adjectiveflowery, adjectivefolk, adjectiveforeword, nounformulaic, adjectivefree verse, nounghost story, nounGothic, adjectivegrandiloquent, adjectivehaiku, nounheroic, adjectiveheroic couplet, nounhexameter, nounhumorist, nounhyperbole, nouniamb, nouniambic pentameter, nounimage, nounimagery, nouninformal, adjectiveingénue, nouninstalment, nounirony, nounjournal, nounlay, nounlimerick, nounlit., literary, adjectiveliterature, nounlyric, adjectivelyric, nounlyrical, adjectivelyricism, nounman of letters, nounmanuscript, nounmetaphor, nounmetaphorical, adjectivemetre, nounmetrical, adjectivemonologue, nounnarrative, nounnarrator, nounnaturalism, nounnaturalistic, adjectivenom de plume, nounnovel, nounnovelist, nounnovella, nounnursery rhyme, nounode, nounonomatopoeia, nounpadding, nounpaean, nounparagraph, nounparaphrase, verbparaphrase, nounparenthetical, adjectivepassage, nounpathetic fallacy, nounpen name, nounpentameter, nounperiphrasis, nounperoration, nounpicaresque, adjectiveplaywright, nounplot, nounpoem, nounpoet, nounpoetess, nounpoetic, adjectivepoetic licence, nounpoet laureate, nounpoetry, nounpolemic, nounpolemical, adjectivepotboiler, nounprécis, nounpreface, nounprefatory, adjectiveprologue, nounprose, nounprosody, nounprotagonist, nounpseudonym, nounpulp, nounquatrain, nounquotation, nounquote, verbreading, nounrecite, verbrendition, nounrevise, verbrevision, nounrhetoric, nounrhyme, nounrhyme, verbromance, nounsaga, nounsatire, nounsatirist, nounscience fiction, nounscribbler, nounscript, nounself-portrait, nounSF, Shakespearean, adjectiveshort story, nounsimile, nounsoliloquy, nounsonnet, nounstanza, nounstilted, adjectivestory, nounstream of consciousness, nounstylist, nounsubplot, nounsubtitle, nounsuperhero, nounsurrealism, nounsurrealistic, adjectivesynopsis, nountailpiece, nountale, nountalking book, nountearjerker, nountext, nountextual, adjectivetexture, nountheme, nounthriller, nountitle, nountragedian, nountragedy, nountragic, adjectivetragicomedy, nountrope, nounturgid, adjectiveunabridged, adjectiveverse, nounvignette, nounvolume, nounweepy, nounwell-turned, adjectivewhodunit, nounwriter, nounwriter's block, nounyarn, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Michelle married him after a whirlwind romance (=one that happens very suddenly and quickly).
Michelle married him after a whirlwind romance (=one that happens very suddenly and quickly). British English, summer romance American English (=one that happens during a holiday) a short holiday romance
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a short holiday romance (=a brief romantic relationship with someone you meet on holiday)· It was just a holiday romance; I never saw him again.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· He added two further novels of historical romance to his published output before 1900.· Although his stories are actually more historical adventure than romance, later romance authors owe him a great debt.
· Once across the threshold a change came over me, which was the stuff of true romance.
NOUN· Like most romance fiction, Medical Romances incorporate a number of standard romance conventions.· As romance fiction blossomed, a number of organizations and publications developed to serve it.· Reviews, lists, and bibliographies are other sources of romance fiction information for the librarian.
· All it is is a harmless holiday romance.· They want photo stories, tales of holiday romances, horoscopes and advice columns as well as free gifts of make-up and jewellery.· Ships in the night, holiday romance etcetera, he would have sensibly suggested, and of course he would have been right.· It was just a holiday romance really; he never knew about you, you know, never had any idea.· You won't be the first or last man or woman who gets themself involved in a holiday romance.
· The pleasures of the romance novel are not dissimilar from those of the chocolate bar; naughty but nice.· Daniels, Dorothy Has produced approximately 150 romance novels, mostly of the gothic variety.· Leave it to the intellectuals to deride romance novels.· Their marriage has been the kind you read about in romance novels.· As for the staying power of the romance novel in the 21st century, history may well be on its side.· Persistent, pervasive, and omnipresent, romance novels are everywhere.· Wind from the south always boded evil in the old romance novels.
· Romance readers' advisory service is connecting the romance reader with the proper romantic story.· But who are the romance readers and just what is it that makes the romance genre so appealing to so many people?· Obviously, then, the average romance reader is not the undereducated, uninformed, subnormal, frustrated housewife of recent mythology.· Depending upon the size of the library or the system, one or more romance readers may be found.
· It was a whirlwind romance, all right, and nobody could talk any sense into Freda.· They had a whirlwind romance, and after a few months she'd started hinting for a ring.· She was introduced to Harry last summer by her younger sister, Michelle, and married him after a whirlwind romance.· But at Eindhoven the organisation was unable to prevent fraternisation between the two sides leaping from mutual suspicion into whirlwind romance.
VERB· Any second-hand bookseller or charity shop can testify to a roaring trade in the once read and discarded romance volume.· Library patrons who read romances are other good sources of information.· Is reading the romance a politically progressive or politically reactionary move?· Their marriage has been the kind you read about in romance novels.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Early on he learned - the hard way - that it was the passport to success.
- Finally, don't assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
- The Union Jack will be our passport to romance.
- We live in an increasingly competitive world where good qualifications are a passport to success.
- Well, so much for a storybook ending.
WORD FAMILYnounromanceromanticromanticismadjectiveromantic ≠ unromanticromanticizedverbromanceromanticizeadverbromantically
1[countable] an exciting and often short relationship between two people who love each otherromance with Hemingway’s romance with his nurse inspired him to write ‘A Farewell to Arms’. Michelle married him after a whirlwind romance (=one that happens very suddenly and quickly).holiday romance British English, summer romance American English (=one that happens during a holiday) a short holiday romance2[uncountable] love, or a feeling of being in love: The romance had gone out of their relationship.3[uncountable] the feeling of excitement and adventure that is related to a particular place, activity etcromance of the romance of Hollywood4[countable] a story about the love between two people: romance novels5[countable] a story that has brave characters and exciting events: a Medieval romanceromance1 nounromance2 verb
romanceromance2 verb 1[intransitive] to describe things that have happened in a way that makes them seem more important, interesting etc than they really wereromance about an old man romancing about the past2[transitive] old-fashioned to try to persuade someone to love you