Etymology : Middle English romauns, from Old French romans French, something written in French, from Latin romanice in the Roman manner, from romanicus Roman, from Romanus
Pronunciation : rO-'man(t)s, r&-; 'rO-"
Function : noun
Date : 14th century
1. love affair, amour; tall tale, tale filled with exaggeration; narrative or poem about chivalry and/or heroic adventures (esp. from the Middle Ages). have a love affair with; tell stories filled with exaggeration, tell tall tales. romanceromanize \ro"man*ize\ , v. t. [imp. & p. p. romanized ; p. pr. & vb. n. romanizing .].
2. to latinize; to fill with latin words or idioms. [r.].
3. to convert to the roman catholic religion.
4. A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.
5. An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.
6. A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.
7. The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian.
8. Spanish, French, etc.
9. A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
10. Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
11. To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories. a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life the group of languages derived from Latin tell romantic or exaggerated lies; "This author romanced his trip to an exotic country" have a love affair with relating to languages derived from Latin; "Romance languages".
12. 1. A romance is a relationship between two people who are in love with each other but who are not married to each other. After a whirlwind romance the couple announced their engagement in July.
13. Romance refers to the actions and feelings of people who are in love, especially behaviour which is very caring or affectionate. He still finds time for romance by cooking candlelit dinners for his girlfriend.
14. You can refer to the pleasure and excitement of doing something new or exciting as romance. We want to recreate the romance and excitement that used to be part of rail journeys.
15. A romance is a novel or film about a love affair. Her taste in fiction was for chunky historical romances.
16. Romance is used to refer to novels about love affairs. Since taking up writing romance in 1967 she has brought out over fifty books.
17. Romance languages are languages such as French, Spanish, and Italian, which come from Latin. Literary form that developed in the aristocratic courts of mid-12th-century France and had its heyday in France and Germany between the mid-12th and mid-13th century in the works of such masters as Chrétien de Troyes and Gottfried von Strassburg. The staple subject matter is chivalric adventure (see:
chivalry), though love stories and religious allegories are sometimes interwoven. Most romances draw their plots from classical history and legend, Arthurian legend, and the adventures of Charlemagne and his knights. Written in the vernacular, they share a taste for the exotic, the remote, and the miraculous. Lingering echoes of the form can be found in later centuries, as in the Romanticism of the 18th-19th century and today's popular romantic novels.
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