[ˈrəʊmans], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love
(e.g: I had a thirst for romance)

- a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life
(e.g: the romance of the sea)

- a medieval tale dealing with a hero of chivalry, of the kind common in the Romance languages
(e.g: the Arthurian romances)

- a work of fiction depicting a setting and events remote from everyday life, especially one of a kind popular in the 16th and 17th centuries
(e.g: Elizabethan pastoral romances)

- a short informal piece
(e.g: the romance from The Gadfly became a popular favourite)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: from Romance, originally denoting a composition in the vernacular as opposed to works in Latin. Early use denoted vernacular verse on the theme of chivalry; the sense ‘genre centred on romantic love’ dates from the mid 17th century

[ˈrəʊmans], (Verb)

Definitions:
- try to gain the love of; court
(e.g: the wealthy estate owner romanced her)



Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: from Romance, originally denoting a composition in the vernacular as opposed to works in Latin. Early use denoted vernacular verse on the theme of chivalry; the sense ‘genre centred on romantic love’ dates from the mid 17th century

[ˈrəʊmans], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages descended from Latin, principally French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Occitan, and Romanian
(e.g: the Romance languages)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (originally denoting the vernacular language of France as opposed to Latin): from Old French romanz, based on Latin Romanicus ‘Roman’

[ˈrəʊmans], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the Romance languages considered as a group


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (originally denoting the vernacular language of France as opposed to Latin): from Old French romanz, based on Latin Romanicus ‘Roman’