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ROMANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
Synonyms:
romance; romanticism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("romance" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "romance"):
stardust (a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality)
Derivation:
romance (tell romantic or exaggerated lies)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("romance" is a kind of...):
novel (an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "romance"):
Gothic romance (a romance that deals with desolate and mysterious and grotesque events)
bodice ripper (a romantic novel containing scenes in which the heroine is sexually violated)
Derivation:
romance (tell romantic or exaggerated lies)
romantic (not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A story dealing with love
Synonyms:
love story; romance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("romance" is a kind of...):
story (a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events)
Derivation:
romance (talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions)
romance (have a love affair with)
romance (make amorous advances towards)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The group of languages derived from Latin
Synonyms:
Latinian language; Romance; Romance language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Romance" is a kind of...):
Latin (any dialect of the language of ancient Rome)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Romance"):
Romanian; Rumanian (an eastern Romance language spoken in Romania)
Rhaeto-Romance; Rhaeto-Romanic (Romance dialects spoken in parts of southeastern Switzerland and northern Italy and the Tyrol)
Catalan (the Romance language spoken in Catalonia in eastern Spain (related to Spanish and Occitan))
Spanish (the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain)
Galician (a language spoken in Galicia, an Autonomus Community of Spain)
Portuguese (the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil)
French (the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France)
Italian (the Romance language spoken in Italy)
Haitian Creole (a creole language spoken by most Haitians; based on French and various African languages)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A relationship between two lovers
Synonyms:
love affair; romance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("romance" is a kind of...):
relationship (a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "romance"):
intrigue (a clandestine love affair)
Derivation:
romantic (expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance)
romance (make amorous advances towards)
romance (have a love affair with)
romance (talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to languages derived from Latin
Example:
Romance languages
Synonyms:
Latin; Romance
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Romance (the group of languages derived from Latin)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tell romantic or exaggerated lies
Example:
This author romanced his trip to an exotic country
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "romance" is one way to...):
lie (tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
romance (an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure))
romance (a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
Example:
My husband never flirts with other women
Synonyms:
butterfly; chat up; coquet; coquette; dally; flirt; mash; philander; romance
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "romance" is one way to...):
speak; talk (exchange thoughts; talk with)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "romance"):
wanton (engage in amorous play)
vamp (act seductively with (someone))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
romance (a story dealing with love)
romance (a relationship between two lovers)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Have a love affair with
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "romance" is one way to...):
love (be enamored or in love with)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Sam cannot romance Sue
Derivation:
romance (a story dealing with love)
romance (a relationship between two lovers)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Make amorous advances towards
Example:
John is courting Mary
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "romance" is one way to...):
act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "romance"):
chase; chase after (pursue someone sexually or romantically)
display (attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Sam cannot romance Sue
Derivation:
romance (a story dealing with love)
romance (a relationship between two lovers)
Context examples:
I was a lusus naturae, she affirmed, as a village schoolmistress: she was sure my previous history, if known, would make a delightful romance.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He was deeply read in books of chivalry and romance.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I felt quite amused at his unwarranted choler, and while he stumped indignantly up and down I fell to dwelling upon the romance of the fog.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Oh that I were a minstrel, that I might put it into rhyme, with the whole romance—the luckless maid, the wicked socman, and the virtuous clerk!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have said already that Boy Jim had no love for his books, but by that I meant school-books, for when it came to the reading of romances or of anything which had a touch of gallantry or adventure, there was no tearing him away from it until it was finished.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If I do, or if I even open this again, it will be to deal with different people and different themes; for here at the end, where the romance of my life is told, ere I go back to take up the thread of my life-work, I say sadly and without hope, FINIS.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Sometimes of an evening, when I looked up from my writing, and saw her seated opposite, I would lean back in my chair, and think how queer it was that there we were, alone together as a matter of course—nobody's business any more—all the romance of our engagement put away upon a shelf, to rust—no one to please but one another—one another to please, for life.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I heard the word Burglum repeated incessantly: several of the emperor’s court, making their way through the crowd, entreated me to come immediately to the palace, where her imperial majesty’s apartment was on fire, by the carelessness of a maid of honour, who fell asleep while she was reading a romance.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Mark on your calendar two sparkling days for romance—March 11 and March 27.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
