Romance Meaning
/rə(ʊ)ˈman(t)s/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounAn intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
nounA strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
Sentence Examples
His romance was the talk of the town.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Their vacation in Paris was full of passion and ____ under the Eiffel Tower.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The novel told the story of a ____ that blossomed between two strangers who met on a train.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman language”, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus (“roman”, adjective) from rōmānus (“a Roman”). Doublet of Romansch.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Everybody's working for the weekend
Everybody wants a new romance."
— 1981, Paul Dean, Matt Frenette, Mike Reno, “Working for the Weekend”, in Get Lucky, performed by Loverboy:
"`Will you undertake the task? We give you complete freedom, and as a reward you will, we believe, have the credit of presenting to the world the most wonderful history, as distinguished from romance, that its records can show.'"
— 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
"Could one have known the past histories of some of the oddly-selected couples who shared everything in common, many a romance might have been written during what, to all outward appearances, was a dull and prosaic time to most lookers-on!"
— 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 152:
"There's a comforting romance to the space—the chalky white walls, the soaring ceilings, the natural light flooding in through the windows, all of which create a warm, flattering glow."
— 2026 May 26, Stacie Stukin, “Historic Opportunity”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 74:
"A female Shepard can romance bisexual Yeoman Kelly Chambers, but doing so does not yield a Paramour achievement or an implied sex scene the way that romancing ‘official’ interests does. Similarly, the player can attempt to romance the Asari Samara or her Ardat-Yakshi daughter Morinth, but the former will refuse and sex with the latter will kill Shepard."
— 2015 November 15, Meghan Blythe Adams, “Renegade Sex: Compulsory Sexuality and Charmed Magic Circles in the Mass Effect series”, in Loading… The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association, volume 9, number 14, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2018, page 47:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Their vacation in Paris was full of passion and ____ under the Eiffel Tower.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The novel told the story of a ____ that blossomed between two strangers who met on a train.