romancenoun
uk/rəʊˈmæns//ˈrəʊ.mæns/us/roʊˈmæns//ˈroʊ.mæns/B1 [ C ] a close, usually short relationship of love between two people:
[ U ] the feelings and behaviour of two people who are in a loving and sexual relationship with each other:
[ U ] the feeling of excitement or mystery that you have from a particular experience or event:
[ C ] a story about love:
[ C ] a story of exciting events, especially one written or set in the past:
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- They married three months after they met - it was a real whirlwind romance.
- Sun, sand, and romance - her holiday was complete.
- If you're looking for a storybook romance, you're always going to be disappointed.
- I want some light reading for the summer holidays - a romance or something.
- The magazine, which gives frank advice about sex and romance, is aimed at the teenage market.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Loving and in love
- absence
- absence makes the heart grow fonder idiom
- adoring
- affection
- apple
- carry
- dear
- fondly
- gaga
- have (got) it bad idiom
- head over heels (in love) idiom
- infatuated
- infatuation
- lose
- puppy love
- romantic
- serious
- smitten
- stuck
- sweep sb off their feet idiom
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romanceverb
uk/rəʊˈmæns//ˈrəʊ.mæns/us/roʊˈmæns//ˈroʊ.mæns/[ I ] to tell stories that are not true, or to describe an event in a way that makes it sound better than it was
[ T ] old-fashioned to try to persuade someone to love you
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Defining & explaining
- (do you) see what I mean? idiom
- account (to sb) for sth
- accountable
- cast
- clarify
- convey
- demystify
- descriptive
- every picture tells a story idiom
- evocative
- evoke
- explicable
- explicate
- fill
- get sth across
- mean
- scene
- schematic
- that is to say ... idiom
- unfold
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