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′, rō′mans); 'romance': (n., adj. rō mans′, rō′mans; v. rō mans′)


Inflections of 'romance' (v): (⇒ conjugate)
romances
v 3rd person singular
romancing
v pres p
romanced
v past
romanced
v past p

romance
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Synonyms:
Romanic, Latinic, Latin, Italic, French Collocations, Italian Collocations, Spanish Collocations, Catalan, Indo-European language, Insular, Portuguese Collocations, Provencal
Sense: Experiences that excite the imagination
Synonyms:
fancy Collocations, fantasy Collocations, the picturesque, adventure Collocations, excitement Collocations, love Collocations, passion Collocations, romanticism, idealization, allure Collocations, fascination, enchantment, exoticism, glamour, thrill Collocations, daring enterprise, bold venture
Sense: A love affair
Synonyms:
affair Collocations, courtship, amour, love Collocations, encounter Collocations, adulterous affair, dalliance, relationship Collocations, divertissement, entanglement, liaison Collocations, romantic tie
Sense: A tale of love and adventure
Synonyms:
novel Collocations, romantic novel, fiction Collocations, love story, historical romance, Gothic novel, bodice-ripper, picaresque tale, adventure story, ballad, lyric tale, metrical romance, Arthurian romance, chanson de geste (French), story Collocations, fancy Collocations


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