romance

1. Romance
   a love affair, esp. one in which the lovers display their deep affection openly, by romantic gestures.
2. Romance
   (Mus) A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
3. Romance
   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. "Romances that been royal.", "Upon these three columns -- chivalry, gallantry, and religion -- repose the fictions of the Middle Ages, especially those known as romances . These, such as we now know them, and such as display the characteristics above mentioned, were originally metrical, and chiefly written by nations of the north of France."
4. Romance
   Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
5. Romance
   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).
6. Romance
   To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories. "A very brave officer, but apt to romance ."

1. (n) romance
   Originally, a tale in verse, written in one of the Romance dialects, as early French or Provencal; hence, any popular epic belonging to the literature of modern Europe, or any fictitious story of heroic, marvelous, or supernatural incidents derived from history or legend, and told in prose or verse and at considerable length: as, the romance of Charlemagne; the Arthurian romances.
2. (n) romance
   In Spain and other Romanic countries—either a short epic narrative poem (historic ballad), or, later
3. (n) romance
   a short lyric poem.
4. (n) romance
   A tale or novel dealing not so much with real or familiar life as with extraordinary and often extravagant adventures, as Cervantes's “Don Quixote,” with rapid and violent changes of scene and fortune, as Dumas's “Count of Monte Cristo,” with mysterious and supernatural events, as R. L. Stevenson's “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” or with morbid idiosyncrasies of temperament, as Godwin's “Caleb Williams,” or picturing imaginary conditions of society influenced by imaginary characters, as Fouqué's “Undine.”
5. (n) romance
   special forms of the romance, suggested by the subject and the manner of treatment, are the historical, the pastoral, the philosophical, the psychological, the allegorical, etc. See novel, n., 4.
6. (n) romance
   Others were much scandalized. It [“The Pilgrim's Progress”] was a vain story, a mere romance, about giants, and lions, and goblins, and warriors.
7. (n) romance
   An invention; fiction; falsehood: used euphemistically.
8. (n) romance
   A blending of the heroic, the marvelous, the mysterious, and the imaginative in actions, manners, ideas, language, or literature; tendency of mind to dwell upon or give expression to the heroic, the marvelous, the mysterious, or the imaginative.
9. (n) romance
   In music: A setting of a romantic story or tale; a ballad.
10. (n) romance
    Any short, simple melody of tender character, whether vocal or instrumental; a song, or song without words. Also romanza.
11. (n) romance
    [capitalized] A Romance language, or the Romance languages. See II.
12. (n) romance
    Synonyms Tale, etc. See novel.
13. romance
    Pertaining to or denoting the languages which arose, in the south and west of Europe, out of the Roman or Latin language as spoken in the provinces at one time subject to Rome. The principal Romance languages are the Italian, French, Provencal, Spanish, Portuguese, Wallachian, and Rhæto-Romanic. Also Romanic. Abbreviated Roman
14. romance
    To invent and relate fictitious stories; deal in extravagant, fanciful, or false recitals; lie.
15. romance
    To be romantic; behave romantically or with fanciful or extravagant enthusiasm; build castles in the air.
16. romance
    To treat, present, or discuss in a romantic manner.

1. (n) Romance
   rō-mans′ 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
2. (adj) Romance
   belonging to the dialects called Romance
3. (v.i) Romance
   to write or tell romances: to talk extravagantly: to build castles in the air

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