romance

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to languages derived from Latin

   Romance languages

2. 2
   verb

   tell romantic or exaggerated lies

   This author romanced their trip to an exotic country.

3. 3
   noun

   An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.

   Everybody's working for the weekend Everybody wants a new romance.

4. 4
   noun

   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.'

5. 5
   noun

   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!

6. 6
   noun

   An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.

   His life was a romance.

7. 7
   noun

   A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.

   She was so full of romance she would forget what she was supposed to be doing.

8. 8
   verb

   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.

Etymology

From Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman language”, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus (“roman”, adjective) from rōmānus (“a Roman”). Doublet of Romansch.