Romancenoun/rə(ʊ)ˈman(t)s/

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  The group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin.

  • The Romance languages are normally grouped along broad geographical lines into Italo-Romance (Italian dialects, with a standard based on Tuscan); Gallo-Romance (French and Provençal); Hispano-Romance (Castilian Spanish, Catalan as less widely recognized standard, and Portuguese); Rhaeto-Romance (Romansh, Ladin, and Friulian); and Balkan Romance (Dalmatian, now extinct, and Romanian). [...] Proto-Romance was a purely spoken language, and we should at least in principle keep it separate from Vulgar Latin.

Romanceadj/rə(ʊ)ˈman(t)s/

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  Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, etc.

  • In this paper we will concentrate on the problem posed by Iberian Romance languages (i.e. Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish), …
  • This book is a fully updated edition of a work first published in 1986. It is intended as a comprehensive work on both current and historical phonetic transcription practice. It covers the phonetic symbol usages of such major traditions as the early Amerindianist work of the Boas school; the American structuralist phonetics and phonology associated with Bloch, Smith, and Trager; and the internationally known system of phonetic representation traditions and transcription principles associated with the International Phonetic Association (IPA). In addition it covers less well known traditions like those of Romance philologists, Germanicists, Slavicists, Indologists, Sinologists, Africanists, and so on, and includes entries for rare and obsolete symbols that have been suggested for use by respected specialists in phonetics but which will be unfamiliar to most linguists and speech scientists.

romancenoun/rə(ʊ)ˈman(t)s/

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  An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.

  • Everybody's working for the weekend Everybody wants a new romance.
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  A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.

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  Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.

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  A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.

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  A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.

  • `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.'
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  A tale of high adventure.

  • 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!
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  A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.

  • the romance of cruising down the Nile.
  • 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.
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  A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.

romanceverb/rə(ʊ)ˈman(t)s/

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  To woo; to court.

  • 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.
  • In the ghetto, the gentle Barber romances a defiant washerwoman, Hannah, who is played by Chaplin's wife at the time, Paulette Goddard.
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  To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.

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  To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.