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    ro·mance
    [rōˈmans, ˈrōˌmans]
    noun
    romance (noun) · romances (plural noun)
    1. a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love:
      "in search of romance"
      • love, especially when sentimental or idealized:
        "he asked her for a date and romance blossomed"
      • an exciting, enjoyable love affair, especially one that is not serious or long-lasting:
        "a summer romance"
      • a book or movie dealing with love in a sentimental or idealized way:
        "light historical romances"
      • a genre of fiction dealing with love in an idealized way:
        "wartime passion from the master of romance"
    2. a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life:
      "the beauty and romance of the night"
    3. a medieval tale dealing with a hero of chivalry, of the kind common in the Romance languages:
      "the Arthurian romances"
      • the literary genre of romance.
    4. a work of fiction dealing with events remote from real life, especially one of a kind popular in the 16th and 17th centuries:
      "Elizabethan pastoral romances"
    5. music
      a short informal piece:
      "the romance from The Gadfly became a popular favorite"
    verb
    romance (verb) · romances (third person present) · romanced (past tense) · romanced (past participle) · romancing (present participle)
    1. dated
      court; woo:
      "the wealthy estate owner romanced her"
      • informal
        seek the attention or patronage of (someone), especially by use of flattery:
        "he is being romanced by the big boys in New York"
      • engage in a love affair:
        "we start romancing"
    2. 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 centered on romantic love’ dates from the mid 17th century.
    Ro·mance
    [rōˈmans, ˈrōˌmans]
    adjective
    Romance (adjective)
    1. relating to the group of Indo-European languages descended from Latin, principally French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Occitan, and Romanian:
      "the Romance languages"
    noun
    Romance (noun)
    1. 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’.
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    noun
    1. a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life:
      mystery
      glamour
      excitement
      colorfulness
      color
      exoticism
      mystique
      appeal
      allure
      fascination
      charm
    verb
    1. court; woo:
      court
      pay court to
      pursue
      chase
      run after
      spark
      chase after
      seek the hand of
      press one's suit with
      set one's cap at
      make love to
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