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US
/ˈɹoʊmæns, ɹoʊˈmæns/
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VERB
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make amorous advances towards
John is courting Mary -
talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
My husband never flirts with other women
The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries - have a love affair with
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tell romantic or exaggerated lies
This author romanced his trip to an exotic country
NOUN
- a story dealing with love
- a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
- a relationship between two lovers
- an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
How To Use romance In A Sentence
- Edgar Allan Poe, I am fond of believing, earned as a critic a good deal of the excess of praise that he gets as a romancer and a poet, and another over-estimated American dithyrambist, Sidney Lanier, wrote the best textbook of prosody in English; [31] but in general the critical writing done in the United States has been of a low order, and most A Book of Prefaces
- Running parallel to this tempestuous relationship is the whirlwind romance between weathergirl Hero, played by Billie Piper, and sports presenter Claude.
- The eight romances for saxophone and piano are indeed romantic.
- Countless millions here and abroad will be hoping the Royal romance brings joy in dark economic times. The Sun
- Passion abounds in this romance set on Maryland's Eastern Shore, where the rough-hewn Seth Quinn wins over Drusilla, the town's icy beauty.
- This World War II romance film makes Amanda feel all warm and cozy, as only stories of convicts and shell-shocked veterans can.
- English pastoral was inaugurated by Spenser's verse eclogues in The Shepheardes Calendar and further developed in The Arcadia, a prose romance by Sidney.
- For decades, such films were low-grade romances with weak plots interfused with 20-odd musical outbursts.
- Bosnia are not simply in Brazil to elicit sympathy or provide romance, and they score an awful lot of goals. Times, Sunday Times
- It's very entertaining to watch and read, and cheaper even than a trashy romance novel.