Romance
[rə(ʊ)'mæns;'rəʊmæns] or [ro'mæns]
Definition
(noun.) a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life.
(noun.) the group of languages derived from Latin.
(verb.) tell romantic or exaggerated lies; 'This author romanced his trip to an exotic country'.
(verb.) have a love affair with.
(adj.) relating to languages derived from Latin; 'Romance languages' .
Checker: Neil--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine; a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like.
(n.) An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.
(n.) A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.
(n.) The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages).
(n.) A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
(v. i.) To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.
Checker: Patty
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Novel, tale, story, work of fiction.
Checked by Claudia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fable, fiction, novel, marvel, rhapsody, rodomontade, gasconade, balderdash
ANT:History, narrative, truth, fact
Inputed by Elsa
Definition
n. a general name for those modern languages in southern Europe which sprang from a corruption of the Roman or Latin language—Italian Spanish Portuguese Provené°l French Roumanian Romansch &c.: a tale written in one of these dialects: any fictitious and wonderful tale: a fictitious narrative in prose or verse which passes beyond the limits of real life: a ballad.—adj. belonging to the dialects called Romance.—v.i. to write or tell romances: to talk extravagantly: to build castles in the air.—ns. Roman′cer Roman′cist.—adjs. Roman′cical (Lamb) dealing with romance; Roman′ic Romance: derived from the Roman alphabet.
Checker: Ronnie
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability as a domestic horse to the hitching-post but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination—free lawless immune to bit and rein. Your novelist is a poor creature as Carlyle might say—a mere reporter. He may invent his characters and plot but he must not imagine anything taking place that might not occur albeit his entire narrative is candidly a lie. Why he imposes this hard condition on himself and 'drags at each remove a lengthening chain ' of his own forging he can explain in ten thick volumes without illuminating by so much as a candle's ray the black profound of his own ignorance of the matter. There are great novels for great writers have 'laid waste their powers ' to write them but it remains true that far and away the most fascinating fiction that we have is 'The Thousand and One Nights. '
Typist: Vivienne
Examples
- This slight sense of romance stirred her like an intoxicant. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Will you allow me to note that little romance down, Sir? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Oh, that is our one family romance. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- For as to secrecy, Henry is quite the hero of an old romance, and glories in his chains. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Ah, she said, I envy Gerty that power she has of dressing up with romance all our ugly and prosaic arrangements! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But romance-writers might know nothing of love, judging by the way in which they treat of it. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Ay but, by the rood of Bromeholm, there was no romance in the matter! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- For them stage-coaches will have become romances--a team of four bays as fabulous as Bucephalus or Black Bess. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The fables we meet with in poems and romances put this entirely out of the question. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- My dear, romances are pernicious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The most romantic of romances! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Jo had never tried this style before, contenting herself with very mild romances for _The Spread Eagle_. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- So she made her wedding gown herself, sewing into it the tender hopes and innocent romances of a girlish heart. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Oh yes, I heard all the romances about him in London; and no doubt one story is as true as another. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I never romanced to you nor to anybody you know. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Checker: Mattie