1 [C] an exciting, usually short, relationship between two people who are in love with each other:
a teenage / holiday romance * They had a whirlwind romance.
2 [U] love or the feeling of being in love:
Spring is here and romance is in the air. * How can you put the romance back into your marriage?
3 [U] a feeling of excitement and adventure, especially connected to a particular place or activity:
the romance of travel
4 [C] a story about a love affair:
She's a compulsive reader of romances.
5 [C] a story of excitement and adventure, often set in the past:
medieval romances
verb (written)
1 [V] to tell stories that are not true or to describe sth in a way that makes it seem more exciting or interesting than it really is
2 [VN] to have or to try to have a romantic relationship with sb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for romance is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is romance a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, romance is tagged as noun.
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