romance

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciations'Romance': /rəˈmæns/; 'romance': /ˈrəʊmæns/, /rəʊˈmæns/, /rəˈmæns/

US:USA pronunciation: IPAUSA pronunciation: IPA/n., adj. roʊˈmæns, ˈroʊmæns; v. roʊˈmæns/

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling'Romance': (rō mans, rōmans); 'romance': (n., adj. rō mans, rōmans; v. rō mans)


Inflections of 'romance' (v): (⇒ conjugate)
romances
v 3rd person singular
romancing
v pres p
romanced
v past
romanced
v past p
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

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InglésEspañol
romance n (love affair)romance nm
  aventura nf
 Andrew and Tara's romance lasted for years.
 El romance de Andrew y Tara duró años.
romance n uncountable (love)romance nm
  amor nm
 Imogen doesn't think romance is worth the effort.
 Imogen no cree que el romance valga la pena.
romance n uncountable (mysterious, exciting quality)misterio nm
 Ben was struck by the romance of the ruins.
 A Ben lo atrapó el misterio de las ruinas.
romance n (novel: love story) (libro)romance nm
  novela rosa loc nom f
  historia de amor nf + loc adj
 Linda likes reading romances.
 A Linda le gusta leer romances.
romance [sb] vtr (be romantic with [sb])cortejar a vtr + prep
  enamorar a vtr + prep
  galantear a vtr + prep
 Glenn romanced his girlfriend by whisking her away to Paris for the weekend.
 Glenn cortejó a su novia llevándosela un fin de semana a París.
romance n (type of music piece)romanza nf
 The guitarist was playing a Spanish romance.
 El guitarrista estaba tocando una romanza española.
Romance adj (language: derived from Latin)romance adj mf
 Mentonasc is a Romance dialect spoken in south-east France.
 El Mentonasc es un dialecto romance que se habla en el sureste de Francia.
Romance n (Romance language group)romance nm
 The term Romance refers to languages that developed from Latin.
 El término "romance" se refiere a las lenguas que devienen del latín.
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2025:

Compound Forms:
InglésEspañol
Romance language n (French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.)lengua romance nf + adj mf
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'romance' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:
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Collocations: a [best-selling, successful] romance writer, romance [novels, books, movies], a [passionate, whirlwind, summer, fleeting] romance, more...

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