What does Romance mean?
Definitions for Romance
roʊˈmæns, ˈroʊ mænsro·mance
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Romance.
Princeton's WordNet
love affair, romancenoun
a relationship between two lovers
romanticism, romancenoun
an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
Romance, Romance language, Latinian languagenoun
the group of languages derived from Latin
love story, romancenoun
a story dealing with love
romanceadjective
a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
Romance, Latinverb
relating to languages derived from Latin
"Romance languages"
woo, court, romance, solicitverb
make amorous advances towards
"John is courting Mary"
romanceverb
have a love affair with
chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mashverb
talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
"The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women"
romanceverb
tell romantic or exaggerated lies
"This author romanced his trip to an exotic country"
GCIDE
Romancenoun
a love affair, esp. one in which the lovers display their deep affection openly, by romantic gestures.
Wiktionary
romancenoun
An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
romancenoun
A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
romancenoun
Love which is pure or beautiful.
romancenoun
A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
romancenoun
A story or novel dealing with idealised love.
romancenoun
An embellished account of something; an idealised lie.
romanceverb
Woo; court.
romanceverb
To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
Romancenoun
The group of languages and cultures which are derived from Latin.
Romanceadjective
Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: as in Portuguese, Italian, French, and Spanish.
Etymology: See romance
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
ChatGPT
romance
Romance refers to a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love and affection between two people. It is often characterized by expressions of love, emotional intimacy, and various gestures that exhibit affection, such as gift-giving, candle-lit dinners, or shared adventures. In literature and film, romance refers to a genre that primarily focuses on the relationship and romantic love between two characters and may have an optimistic ending.
Webster Dictionary
Romancenoun
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
Romancenoun
an adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance
Romancenoun
a dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance
Romancenoun
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)
Romancenoun
a short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza
Romanceadjective
of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance
Romanceverb
to write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories
Etymology: [OE. romance, romant, romaunt, OF. romanz, romans, romant, roman, F. roman, romance, fr. LL. Romanice in the Roman language, in the vulgar tongue, i. e., in the vulgar language which sprang from Latin, the language of the Romans, and hence applied to fictitious compositions written in this vulgar tongue; fr. L. Romanicus Roman, fr. Romanus. See Roman, and cf. Romanic, Romaunt, Romansch, Romanza.]
Wikidata
Romance
Romance is the expressive and pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person associated with sexual attraction. It is eros rather than agape, philia, or storge. In the context of romantic love relationships, romance usually implies an expression of one's strong romantic love, or one's deep and strong emotional desires to connect with another person intimately or romantically. Historically, the term "romance" originates with the medieval ideal of chivalry as set out in its chivalric romance literature. Humans have a natural inclination to form bonds with one another through social interactions, be it through verbal communication or nonverbal gestures.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Romance
rō-mans′, n. a general name for those modern languages in southern Europe which sprang from a corruption of the Roman or Latin language—Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Provençal, French, Roumanian, Romansch, &c.: a tale written in one of these dialects: any fictitious and wonderful tale: a fictitious narrative in prose or verse which passes beyond the limits of real life: a ballad.—adj. belonging to the dialects called Romance.—v.i. to write or tell romances: to talk extravagantly: to build castles in the air.—ns. Roman′cer, Roman′cist.—adjs. Roman′cical (Lamb), dealing with romance; Roman′ic, Romance: derived from the Roman alphabet. [O. Fr. romans—Low L. adv. (loqui) romanice, (to speak) in the Roman or Latin tongue—L. Romanicus, Roman.]
The Roycroft Dictionary
romance
Where the hero begins by deceiving himself and ends by deceiving others.
Editors Contribution
romance
A couple who have an intimate relationship and who exist as a united partnership together.
Romance is experienced by some who love to share their life with another human being in partnership together.
Submitted by MaryC on September 17, 2016
romance
To create an experience for a couple to share time together or share an activity that creates a sense or feeling that we choose to exist with kind, thoughtful, loving and understanding action and behavior.
Romance is desired by some people who are in a relationship to create a sense of kindness, thoughtfulness or loving feelings.
Submitted by MaryC on September 17, 2016
Suggested Resources
romance
Song lyrics by romance -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by romance on the Lyrics.com website.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
ROMANCE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Romance is ranked #78040 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Romance surname appeared 245 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Romance.
87.3% or 214 total occurrences were White.
8.1% or 20 total occurrences were Black.
3.2% or 8 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Romance' in Nouns Frequency: #2852
Usage in printed sourcesFrom:
- [["1563","2"],["1568","1"],["1572","1"],["1587","48"],["1635","8"],["1637","2"],["1645","25"],["1648","2"],["1650","2"],["1657","5"],["1662","1"],["1671","1"],["1675","2"],["1677","1"],["1679","1"],["1683","1"],["1685","2"],["1689","1"],["1692","1"],["1693","47"],["1698","17"],["1700","2"],["1701","1"],["1702","1"],["1705","2"],["1706","2"],["1707","1"],["1709","1"],["1712","3"],["1713","6"],["1716","1"],["1719","3"],["1720","2"],["1721","5"],["1722","4"],["1723","1"],["1724","5"],["1726","5"],["1727","3"],["1728","12"],["1729","19"],["1730","17"],["1731","5"],["1732","3"],["1733","4"],["1734","8"],["1735","2"],["1736","12"],["1737","9"],["1738","9"],["1739","1"],["1740","3"],["1741","4"],["1742","19"],["1743","22"],["1744","13"],["1745","3"],["1746","12"],["1747","21"],["1748","21"],["1749","16"],["1750","27"],["1751","39"],["1752","49"],["1753","35"],["1754","74"],["1755","46"],["1756","23"],["1757","49"],["1758","29"],["1759","72"],["1760","39"],["1761","60"],["1762","37"],["1763","45"],["1764","47"],["1765","59"],["1766","77"],["1767","66"],["1768","98"],["1769","53"],["1770","122"],["1771","85"],["1772","63"],["1773","55"],["1774","422"],["1775","222"],["1776","178"],["1777","150"],["1778","223"],["1779","60"],["1780","88"],["1781","243"],["1782","79"],["1783","100"],["1784","169"],["1785","134"],["1786","109"],["1787","175"],["1788","293"],["1789","196"],["1790","216"],["1791","212"],["1792","222"],["1793","168"],["1794","214"],["1795","216"],["1796","297"],["1797","207"],["1798","298"],["1799","307"],["1800","430"],["1801","715"],["1802","443"],["1803","626"],["1804","747"],["1805","1077"],["1806","785"],["1807","1607"],["1808","820"],["1809","882"],["1810","1232"],["1811","1053"],["1812","675"],["1813","981"],["1814","1771"],["1815","1007"],["1816","1890"],["1817","1171"],["1818","1352"],["1819","1097"],["1820","1991"],["1821","1387"],["1822","1534"],["1823","3068"],["1824","2915"],["1825","3896"],["1826","2111"],["1827","2372"],["1828","1671"],["1829","2020"],["1830","2894"],["1831","2394"],["1832","2663"],["1833","3271"],["1834","3941"],["1835","3821"],["1836","3158"],["1837","4305"],["1838","4148"],["1839","5005"],["1840","3734"],["1841","4042"],["1842","4744"],["1843","3224"],["1844","3657"],["1845","6300"],["1846","5391"],["1847","5025"],["1848","5486"],["1849","6643"],["1850","6224"],["1851","5459"],["1852","6777"],["1853","7207"],["1854","7983"],["1855","6367"],["1856","6864"],["1857","6337"],["1858","5120"],["1859","6530"],["1860","6536"],["1861","5300"],["1862","4684"],["1863","4736"],["1864","5236"],["1865","4604"],["1866","4954"],["1867","5584"],["1868","5253"],["1869","5686"],["1870","5870"],["1871","6311"],["1872","6208"],["1873","6596"],["1874","6642"],["1875","7453"],["1876","8266"],["1877","6950"],["1878","6727"],["1879","7146"],["1880","10024"],["1881","9346"],["1882","11414"],["1883","12348"],["1884","9177"],["1885","9970"],["1886","9617"],["1887","11538"],["1888","11844"],["1889","9033"],["1890","9580"],["1891","11092"],["1892","12055"],["1893","12877"],["1894","13706"],["1895","15394"],["1896","14767"],["1897","18594"],["1898","17691"],["1899","21708"],["1900","23408"],["1901","23202"],["1902","23671"],["1903","18832"],["1904","22606"],["1905","20272"],["1906","23310"],["1907","22757"],["1908","22332"],["1909","20128"],["1910","21136"],["1911","22292"],["1912","21986"],["1913","21129"],["1914","19972"],["1915","15828"],["1916","16336"],["1917","17362"],["1918","14412"],["1919","16065"],["1920","18881"],["1921","17463"],["1922","20952"],["1923","22504"],["1924","19295"],["1925","19234"],["1926","17359"],["1927","21168"],["1928","16920"],["1929","18669"],["1930","21813"],["1931","19715"],["1932","16919"],["1933","11438"],["1934","14612"],["1935","16113"],["1936","17007"],["1937","14128"],["1938","14945"],["1939","12924"],["1940","12024"],["1941","10019"],["1942","8349"],["1943","7396"],["1944","6894"],["1945","8356"],["1946","11263"],["1947","14498"],["1948","13532"],["1949","16095"],["1950","14972"],["1951","14464"],["1952","13583"],["1953","11993"],["1954","13733"],["1955","13101"],["1956","14366"],["1957","18877"],["1958","16163"],["1959","15671"],["1960","19711"],["1961","20942"],["1962","23824"],["1963","25379"],["1964","21565"],["1965","27232"],["1966","28145"],["1967","27813"],["1968","30598"],["1969","31354"],["1970","35972"],["1971","31771"],["1972","32993"],["1973","27320"],["1974","27976"],["1975","26512"],["1976","30523"],["1977","29283"],["1978","30750"],["1979","29564"],["1980","34427"],["1981","31747"],["1982","36537"],["1983","41635"],["1984","43524"],["1985","46713"],["1986","45903"],["1987","53938"],["1988","54103"],["1989","57675"],["1990","67277"],["1991","63970"],["1992","69420"],["1993","73650"],["1994","74837"],["1995","77609"],["1996","83922"],["1997","78894"],["1998","86477"],["1999","96183"],["2000","111011"],["2001","100113"],["2002","112423"],["2003","127082"],["2004","152075"],["2005","136952"],["2006","151141"],["2007","172557"],["2008","225611"]]
Anagrams for Romance »
Cameron
Cremona
nom race
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Romance in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Romance in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of Romance in a Sentence
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
A potential buyer for a yacht such as Regina would be a high-net-worth individual who has a strong passion for the sea and sailing and who also enjoys the comfort of a motor sailing yacht, she’s made with romance that can be felt as soon as you step on board.
Whenever it goes too far in one direction, it just gets boring. It's very dominated by men right now … We don't have enough women, maybe it's more romance that country is missing right now. Women have a lot to say but it takes a lot of courage to say it. Women are the greater risk-takers. When they step out of what's expected in this genre, they are really stepping in the line of fire.
Popularity rank by frequency of use
References
Translations for Romance
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- قصة حبArabic
- Romantik, Romanze, romantische Liebe, LiebeserlebnisGerman
- romanceSpanish
- داستان عاشقانهPersian
- romanssiFinnish
- romance, amour romantiqueFrench
- gráIrish
- cooish ghraihManx
- románcHungarian
- percintaanIndonesian
- storia d'amore, idillio, romanzo, esagerazione fantasiosa, poesia, romanticheria, atmosfera fantasiosaItalian
- ロマンチック・ラブ, ロマンス, 伝奇小説, ロマンチックな愛, 恋愛, 恋, 伝奇Japanese
- ប្រលោមលោកKhmer
- fābulaLatin
- romanceDutch
- romancePortuguese
- романс, романтическая повесть, роман, романтическая любовь, романтикаRussian
- romantikSwedish
Get even more translations for Romance »
Translation
Find a translation for the Romance definition in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Word of the Day
Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?
Citation
Use the citation below to add this definition to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Romance." Definitions.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2025. Web. 9 Feb. 2025. <https://www.definitions.net/definition/Romance>.
Discuss these Romance definitions with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In