romance
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3.1
- noun
- /roʊˈmæns/
:
novela romántica
- I'm seeing a romance film tonight.
- a romance novel
- the romance genre
- romance stories
But instead of a romance book, it's like war theory.
- But instead of a romance book, it's like war theory.
- But it didn't like the romance, didn't take over the whole book.
- I read Holiday romance and snowed in.
- This was the second chance romance F to L Oh, friends to lovers.
- Next we have some second chance romance recommendations.
- The Kiss Quotient is a brilliant little romance, sort of Pretty Woman in reverse.
- I'm not, like, a huge consumer of romance movies.
- Next up is a contemporary drama, romance, maybe.
- Or did you see the movie True Romance?
- Yeah, I have a romance one that I'm reading too.
- So it says one star romance author of the daydreams.
- Love story, same thing Adventure romance, same thing.
Examples
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The movie was a classic romance that captivated audiences with its heartwarming story and idealized characters.
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Women have traditionally been Hollywood's target audience for romance, and Focus counted on this fact in their marketing campaign.
Academic text (2012) -
There is some romance in here which I enjoyed.
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Want a simple romance, nothing more, nothing less from you?
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Especially now, when romance is in the air?
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The overriding theme of a romance novel is the healing power of love.
Academic text (2011) -
Who would have guessed that his heart was full of romance and his soul yearned for love?
Fiction book (1990) -
l find old-fashioned romance so touching, don't you?
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She read a beautiful romance novel that transported her to another world filled with love and adventure.
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He found himself lost in a romance filled with heroic events and unforgettable moments of love.
Synonyms
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1.9
A story, like a book or film, about love between the main characters
Antonyms
Compounds
- Literature
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9.3
Stories or novels with dark, mysterious settings and frightening events
A group of languages from Latin spoken in parts of southeastern Switzerland, northern Italy and the Tyrol
How Sentimental
Surface Forms
Etymology
Romance comes from old stories told 'in the Roman way' — that is, in the everyday language of the people rather than in Latin, and these tales often showed knights and great adventures. That's why romance became the name for a story or novel about love and adventure.