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Ro·me·o

 (rō′mē-ō′)
n. pl. Ro·me·os
An attractive or romantic male lover.

[After Romeo, , the hero of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.]
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Romeo

(ˈrəʊmɪəʊ)
npl -os
1. an ardent male lover
2. (Communications & Information) communications a code word for the letter r
[from the hero of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1594)]
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Ro•me•o

(ˈroʊ miˌoʊ)

n., pl. -me•os.
1. the romantic lover of Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
2. any man with a reputation for amatory success with women.
3. a lover.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Romeo - an ardent male loverRomeo - an ardent male lover      
lover - a person who loves someone or is loved by someone
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Romeo

noun
A man amorously attentive to women:
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Translations
Romeo
Raivo
RistoRomeo
Roméo
Romeo

Romeo

[ˈrəʊmɪəʊ] NRomeo
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Romeo

[ˈrəʊmiəʊ] (humorous) nRoméo m
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Romeo

nRomeo m; (fig)Herzensbrecher m; a Latin Romeoein Papagallo m (inf)
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References in classic literature ?
Now, to give the big bell in marriage to Quasimodo was to give Juliet to Romeo.
So the duke he told him all about who Romeo was and who Juliet was, and said he was used to being Romeo, so the king could be Juliet.
That very evening, marked by Mr Kidd for the exposition of Catastrophism, had been marked by Sir Claude Champion for an open-air rendering of Romeo and Juliet, in which he was to play Romeo to a Juliet it was needless to name.
A gaudy, unnatural gold ornament on the arm suddenly reminded Kidd of Romeo and Juliet; of course the tight crimson suit was part of the play.
He would not snatch Romeo's sword from its romantic scabbard; or slay his foe on the sundial as on a kind of altar; or leave his body among the roses, or fling the sword away among the pines.
Tried out, Falstaff might have rendered more romance to the ton than would have Romeo's rickety ribs to the ounce.
As with all Alfa Romeos, the new motor is well equipped, coming with dual-zone climate control, Alfa's D.N.A.
In the earliest stages of HSM-41's transition to the MH-60R, before there were any Romeos on the ramp, the squadron borrowed MH-60S simulator time from San Diego squadrons.
ROMEO MEETS ROMEO: Sian Brooke, the RSC's current Juliet, with 'Romeos' James Marsters and Matthew Rhys
On February 21 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Comes will star in one of his signature roles, Romeo, in Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet, a ballet made legendary by the performances of Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn.