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romance
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[ noun ] a relationship between two lovers
Synonyms Used in print (Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)He imagined they were the kind whose tax_returns were never examined ( if they were , they were never penalized ) , whose children had no unhappy romances , whose names never knew scandal . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates , I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing_for_effect , to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom , later , in the privacy of our bunks , we would think in_terms_of the most elaborate romance . (Evan Esar, Humorous English; a guide to comic ,...)A weekly newspaper reported a local romance : `` and the couple were married last Saturday , thus ending a friendship which began in their schooldays '' . The moonlit night was made_for romance , and he had been looking at her soulfully for some time . Related terms |
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[ noun ] an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
Synonyms Used in print (Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)The record teems with romance and adventure . |
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[ verb ] have a love affair with
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[ noun ] (linguistics,Roman antiquity) the group of languages derived from Latin
Synonyms Related terms Latin Spanish French Portuguese Rumanian Italian rhaeto-romance haitian_creole Catalan bodice_ripper |
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[ verb ] tell romantic or exaggerated lies
Examples "This author romanced his trip to an exotic country" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (writing) a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
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