romance
noun
[ rə(ʊ)ˈmans ]
• a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love.
• "I had a thirst for romance"
• a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life.
• "the romance of the sea"
Similar:
mystery,
glamour,
excitement,
colourfulness,
colour,
exoticism,
mystique,
appeal,
allure,
fascination,
charm,
• a medieval tale dealing with a hero of chivalry, of the kind common in the Romance languages.
• "the Arthurian romances"
• a work of fiction depicting a setting and events remote from everyday life, especially one of a kind popular in the 16th and 17th centuries.
• "Elizabethan pastoral romances"
• a short informal piece.
• "the romance from The Gadfly became a popular favourite"
romance
verb
• try to gain the love of; court.
• "the wealthy estate owner romanced her"
• another term for romanticize.
• "to a certain degree I am romancing the past"
Origin:
Middle English: from Romance, originally denoting a composition in the vernacular as opposed to works in Latin. Early use denoted vernacular verse on the theme of chivalry; the sense ‘genre centred on romantic love’ dates from the mid 17th century.
Romance
adjective
• relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages descended from Latin, principally French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Occitan, and Romanian.
• "the Romance languages"
Romance
noun
• the Romance languages considered as a group.
Origin:
Middle English (originally denoting the vernacular language of France as opposed to Latin): from Old French romanz, based on Latin Romanicus ‘Roman’.
