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Romance Meaning in French |
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roman [ling.broder
, fabuler
, laisser vagabonder son imagination
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Romance
- (n.) An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.
- (a.) Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
- (n.) A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
- (v. i.) To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.
- (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.) 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 dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.
Synonyms:
Butterfly, Coquet, Coquette, Court, Dally, Flirt, Latin, Mash, Philander, Romanticism, Solicit, Woo,
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• Romancer
- (n.) One who romances.
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symbolic, ten, galosh, doubt, plexus, terrible, antidotal, cruciate, contra, ceiling, citadel, divergence, neuritis, instinctively, filter, accepted, chivalry, engaged, estimate, mediated, occupy, twiddle, moonstruck, pimpled, embargo, hoodwink, misty, demarcate, dynasty, holophrastic, arbutus, accept, |
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Nightingale, You, Love, Wait, Rim, Rime, I, Awesome, Waste, Go, Hello, Which, Forsake, Abbe, Abbreviation, Ravage, Humiliate, Abash, Chagrin, Degradation, Name, Abate, Abbreviate, Desert, Abbey, Abandon, Hang, Discomfit, Dangle, Abattoir, Opposite, Abandonment, |
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