her Romeo
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- noun
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su Romeo
- For never was there a story of... of such woe, as of Ginny and her Romeo.
- Juliet and her Romeo
Examples
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In every love story, he wanted to find his Romeo who would be his perfect match.
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For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
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She was devoted to him, often referring to him as her Romeo.
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Despite the challenges they faced, she always believed he was her Romeo, her true love.
Synonyms
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A man who is very romantic and shows strong love for someone
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A person you love as a romantic partner
A man who shows deep love and does dramatic, romantic things
How Romantic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally transparent: 'her' marks possession and 'Romeo' functions as a conventionalized label for a romantic man, so together they denote her romantic partner. Given the input assumption that the learner knows the constituent meanings (including the culturalized sense of 'Romeo' as a romantic suitor), the overall meaning is directly derivable.
Etymology
Her Romeo comes from the story 'Romeo and Juliet' where Romeo is a young man who shows strong love with poems and big romantic gestures. Calling someone her Romeo creates the picture of a devoted, romantic man, so it means 'a woman's romantic partner'.