romantic love, or the feelings and behaviour usually associated with it
a love affair
a medieval verse tale dealing with chivalric love and adventure
a prose narrative dealing with imaginary characters involved in heroic, adventurous, or mysterious events
a story or film about romantic love
such stories or films collectively
a medieval verse tale dealing with chivalric love and adventure
a prose narrative dealing with imaginary characters involved in heroic, adventurous, or mysterious events that are remote in time or place
an emotional aura attaching to an enthralling era, adventure, or pursuit
something lacking any basis in fact
Middle English romauns via Old French romanz from Latin romanice in the Roman manner, later ‘in the vernacular’, from romanicus Romance, from Romanus (adj and noun) Roman, from Roma Rome. The word originally referred to a narrative written in the vernacular, as opposed to Latin, many of which were about chivalrous deeds or courtly love