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Definition: Romance |
RomanceAdjective1. Relating to languages derived from Latin; "Romance languages". Noun1. A relationship between two lovers. 2. An exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure). 3. The group of languages derived from Latin. 4. A story dealing with love. 5. A novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life. Verb1. Make amorous advances towards; "John is courting Mary". 2. Have a love affair with. 3. Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women". 4. Tell romantic or exaggerated lies; "This author romanced his trip to an exotic country". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Romance" was first used: 13th century. (references) |
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Satire | ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination -- free, lawless, immune to bit and rein. Your novelist is a poor creature, as Carlyle might say -- a mere reporter. He may invent his characters and plot, but he must not imagine anything taking place that might not occur, albeit his entire narrative is candidly a lie. Why he imposes this hard condition on himself, and "drags at each remove a lengthening chain" of his own forging he can explain in ten thick volumes without illuminating by so much as a candle's ray the black profound of his own ignorance of the matter. There are great novels, for great writers have "laid waste their powers" to write them, but it remains true that far and away the most fascinating fiction that we have is "The Thousand and One Nights.". Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Romance A tale in prose or verse the incidents of which are hung upon what is marvellous and fictitious. These tales were originally written in the Romance language (q.v.), and the expression, "In Romance we read," came in time to refer to the tale, and not to the language in which it was told. Romance of chivalry may be divided into three groups:- (1) that relating to Arthur and his Round Table; (2) that relating to Charlemagne and his paladins; (3) that relating to Amadis and Palmerin. In the first are but few fairies; in the second they are shown in all their glory; in the third (which belongs to Spanish literature) we have no fairies, but the enchantress Urganda la Desconecida. It is misleading to call such poetical tales as the Bride of Abydos, Lalla Rookh, and the Chansons of the Mouvères, etc., Romances. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Romance is a 1930 film which tells the story of a bishop telling a young man a cautionary tale of the dangers of falling in love with "fallen women." It stars Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Gavin Gordon and Elliott Nugent.The movie was adapted by Edwin Justus Mayer and Bess Meredyth from the play by Edward Sheldon. It was directed by Clarence Brown.
It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Greta Garbo) and Best Director.
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The Romance languages are a subfamily of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken by the common people evolving in different areas after the break-up of the Roman Empire. Latin itself is treated as an Italic but not a Romance language.The modern Romance languages differ from Classical Latin in a number of fundamental respects:
Roughly, from west to east, the Romance variants, or dialects, form a continuum. Portuguese, French, and Romanian are the three extreme deviations, though this does not imply that they are totally distinct. Sardinian is the most isolated and conservative variant. Languedocian Occitan could be tagged as the central "Western Romance by default".
- No declensions (except Romanian which has five cases)
- Only two grammatical genders, rather than the three of Classical Latin (except Romanian, and verbs which are used as nouns in Spanish)
- Introduction of grammatical articles, based on Latin demonstratives
- Latin future tense scrapped, and new future and conditional tenses introduced, based on infinitive+present or imperfect tense of habere, fused to form new inflections.
- Latin synthetic perfect tenses replaced by new compound forms with be or have + past participle (except Portuguese, where the Latin plusquamperfect tense has been retained).
There are many local varieties spoken in the Romance-language countries, and there is no clear differentiation between a 'language' and a 'dialect'. Roughly speaking, those varieties that are definitely separate languages include the main national languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian), plus Catalan, Occitan (or Provençal), Sardinian, and Rumansh. After that it becomes questionable: is Galician, for example, yet another full language, or is it a variety of Portuguese with strong influence of Spanish? Or rather a language, with Portuguese as a dialect of it (as some argue it is?) Naturally, political and cultural and local pride issues play a role in these debates.
Historically, the first split was between Sardinian and the rest. Then of the rest, the next split was between Romanian in the east, and the others in the west. The third major split was between Italian and the Gallo-Iberian group. This latter then split into a Gallic group, which became French, Occitan, and Rumansh, and an Iberian group which became Spanish, Catalan, and Portuguese. Catalan is considered by many specialists as a transition language between the Gallic group and the Iberian group, since it shares characteristics from both groups (just for an example, among many others: 'fear' is 'medo' in Portuguese, 'miedo' in Spanish, but 'por' in Catalan - compare with 'peur' in French). See also Iberian Romance Languages.
The most spoken Romance language is the Spanish language (Castellano or Español), followed by Portuguese, French and Italian.
Here is a more detailed listing of languages and dialects:
- Iberian languages
- Portuguese language
- Galician (closely related to Portuguese)
- Eonaviegan (a Galician dialect with some traits of Asturian)
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Leonese
- Asturian (the variant with more vitality)
- Mirandese (spoken in tiny corner in Portugal - very archaic)
- Spanish
- Judaeo-Spanish or ladino
- Aragonese
- Mozarabic variants (extinct by the 15th century)
- Catalan
- Western Catalan
- Nord-occidental Catalan
- Ribagorçan (transitional to Aragonese)
- Valencian
- Eastern Catalan
- Central Catalan
- Septentrional Catalan (Rousillonese)
- Balear
- Alguerese
- Occitan or langue d'oc
- Gascon
- Aranese
- Provençal
- Franco-provençal
- French or langue d'oïl
- Valon
- Picard
- Cajun French
- Rhaetian variants
- Friulian
- Ladin
- Romansh
- Corsican (closely related to Ligurian dialects)
- Italian
- Piemontese
- Ligurian
- Lombard
- Venetian
- Emilio-Romagnolo
- Napoletano-Calabrese
- Sicilian
- Sardinian
- Campidanese
- Logudorese
- Gallurese
- Sassarese (transitional to Corsican)
- Northern African (extinct by the 15th century)
- Dalmatian (extinct)
- Romanian (also named Moldovan in Moldova)
- Istro-Romanian
- Megleno-Romanian
- Macedo-Romanian
The classification below is largely based on the analysis provided at ethnologue.com. The ISO-639-2 code roa is applied by the ISO for any Romance language that does not have its own code. The Ethnologue classification (produced by the SIL International) is at one extreme of linguists, who divide into 'splitters' and 'lumpers'. Ethnologue produce a very detailed classification, which is more precise than many other linguists would accept, but it is valuable as a description of varieties.
The Southern group
The Italo-Western group
- Sardinian Four versions recognized; all are included in ISO 639-1 code, sc; ISO 639-2 code, srd)
- Sardinian, Sassarese - (SIL Code, SDC)
- Sardinian, Gallurese - (SIL Code, SDN)
- Sardinian, Logudorese - (SIL Code, SRD)
- Sardinian, Campidanese - (SIL Code, SRO)
- Corsican - (SIL Code, COI; ISO 639-1 code, co; ISO 639-2 code, cos)
The Western sub-group
. .Gallo-Iberian division
. . .Ibero-Romance sub-division
. . . .West Iberian section. . . .East Iberian section
- Asturo-Leonese
- Asturian - (SIL Code, AUB; ISO 639-2 code, ast)
- Miranda dl Duoro - (SIL Code, MWL; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Castilian
- Spanish - (SIL Code, SPN; ISO 639-1 code, es; ISO 639-2 code, spa)
- Spanish, Loreto-Ucayali - (SIL Code, SPQ; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino) - (SIL Code, SPJ; ISO 639-2 code, lad)
- Extremaduran - (SIL Code, EXT; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Caló - (SIL Code, RMR; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Portuguese-Galician
- Portuguese - (SIL Code, POR; ISO 639-1 code, pt; ISO 639-2 code, por)
- Galician - (SIL Code, GLN; ISO 639-1 code, gl; ISO 639-2 code, glg)
- Fala - (SIL Code, FAX; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
. . . .Oc section
- Catalan-Valencian-Balear - (SIL Code, CLN; ISO 639-1 code, ca; ISO 639-2 code, cat)
. . .Gallo-Romance sub-division
- Occitan (langue d'oc) - Six versions recognized; all are included in ISO 639-1 code, oc; ISO 639-2 code, oci) - all are from France
- Auvergnat - (SIL Code, AUV)
- Gascon - (SIL Code, GSC)
- Limousin - (SIL Code, LMS)
- Languedocien - (SIL Code, LNC)
- Provençal - (SIL Code, PRV)
- Shuadit - (SIL Code, SDT)
. . . .Gallo-Rhaetian section. . . .Gallo-Italian section
- Rhaetian
- Friulian - (SIL Code, FRL; ISO 639-2 code, fur)
- Ladin - (SIL Code, LLD; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Romansh - (SIL Code, RHE; ISO 639-1 code, rm; ISO 639-2 code, roh)
- Langues d'Oïl
- French (langue d'oïl)
- Standard French - (SIL Code, FRN; ISO 639-1 code, fr; ISO 639-2(B) code, fre; ISO 639-2(T) code, fra)
- Cajun French - (SIL Code, FRC; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Picard - (SIL Code, PCD; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Zarphatic - (SIL Code, ZRP; ISO 639-2 code, roa) - extinct
- Franco-Provençal - (SIL Code, FRA; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
. .Pyrenean-Mozarabic division
- Emilio-Romagnolo - (SIL Code, EML; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Ligurian - (SIL Code, LIJ; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Lombard - (SIL Code, LMO; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Piemontese - (SIL Code, PMS; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Venetian - (SIL Code, VEC; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
The Italo-Dalmatian sub-group
- Pyrenean
- Aragonese - (SIL Code, AXX; ISO 639-1 code, an;ISO 639-2 code, arg)
- Mozarabic
- Mozarabic - (SIL Code, MXI; ISO 639-2 code, roa) - Extinct for common speech
The Eastern group
- Italian - (SIL Code, ITN; ISO 639-1 code, it; ISO 639-2 code, ita)
- Napoletano-Calabrese - (SIL Code, NPL; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Sicilian - (SIL Code, SCN; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Judeo-Italian - (SIL Code, ITK; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Dalmatian - (SIL Code, DLM; ISO 639-2 code, roa) - extinct in 19th century.
- Istriot - (SIL Code, IST; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
Also as Moldovan - (ISO 639-1 code, mo; ISO 639-2 code, mol)
- Romanian - (SIL Code, RUM; ISO 639-1 code, ro; ISO 639-2(B) code, rum; ISO 639-2(T) code, ron) - Includes Daco-Romanian.
Here are some criteria that distinguish subgroups of the Romance languages:
- Istro-Romanian - (SIL Code, RUO; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Megleno-Romanian - (SIL Code, RUQ; ISO 639-2 code, roa)
- Macedo-Romanian - (SIL Code, RUP; ISO 639-2 code, roa) - Includes Aromanian
Formation of plurals
Some Romance languages form plurals by adding "s" (derived from Latin accusative case), while others form the plural by changing the final vowel - "o"/"e" to "i", or "a" to "e" (derived from Latin nominative case).Omission of final Latin vowels
- Plural in "s": Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, French
- Vowel change: Italian, Romanian.
Some Romance languages omit the final unstressed vowels from the Latin roots - for example: Latin LUPUS, LUNA become Italian LUPO, LUNA or Spanish LOBO, LUNA but French LOUP, LUNE.Word for "more"
- Final vowels retained: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian
- Final vowels retained in feminine only: Catalan, Occitan, Romanian
- Final vowels dropped: French.
Some languages use a version of PLUS, others a version of MAGIS.Sedecim vs. Decem-et-sex
- PLUS-derived: French, Italian
- MAGIS-derived: Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, Occitan, Romanian
In some languages the word for 16 is morphematim "sixteen", like 11-15; in others it is "ten-and-six", like 17-19.To have and to hold
- Sedecim: Catalan, Occitan, French, Italian, Romanian.
- Decem-et-sex: Portuguese, Spanish.
The words "habere" and "tenere" are used differently for "to hold", "to have", "to have (done)", and "there is".For instance, in French, je tiens, j'ai, j'ai fait, il y a: these are respectively derived from "tenere", "habere", "habere", "habere". Thus "THHH".
To have or to be
- TTTT: Portuguese (Brazil).
- TTTH: Portuguese/Galician.
- TTHH: Spanish, Catalan.
- THHH: Occitan, French.
- THHE: Romanian, Italian (E for "Esse", 'to be')
Some languages use "have" as an auxiliary verb to form the perfect forms (e.g. French: passé composé) of all verbs; others use "be" for some verbs, generally those of motion or becoming.
- "Have" only: Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian.
- "Have" and "be": Catalan, Occitan, French, Italian.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Romance languages."
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1. The terms romantic and romance refer to emotions of love as conceived in western society. They refer to the idealization of another person, and of a relationship with that person. Other ideas of love have been advanced by several philosophers and have been popular in different cultures.A romantic relationship may involve sexual behavior, but the term puts more emphasis on the emotions than on the bodily pleasures, and as far as physical intimacy is involved, less emphasis on the intimate parts.
2. Romance as a genre of literature is a complex term. Initially, the term applied only to the 'romans' (narratives) of Anglo-French literature. These were rooted in the story of the founding of Rome, which was itself rooted in the Homerica. Thus, stories of Aeneas, Brutus, and Romulus and Remus were "romance" subjects. The stories of King Arthur were included in this genre, since Arthur is supposed to either be derived from Rome or to have been one of the sackers of Rome. Therefore, "romance" poetry included all chivalric tales.
By the Renaissance, "romance" referred to any courtly tale, and especially narratives and prose. This designation survives in the French usage of "roman" to refer to the novel. By the 17th and 18th centuries, "romance" had come to mean any long narrative, whether it had courtly or erotic content or not. Thus, Fielding's famous description of his Joseph Andrews as "comic romance" or "a comic epic poem in prose" was a way not of indicating that his novel would have erotic love in it, but rather that it would be a narrative.
See also
- Romanticism
- romantic comedy
- Romance language
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Romantic."
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A grouping of four of William Shakespeare's latest plays, including Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. The last two are generally considered superior.After mastering the genres of history, tragedy, comedy, and tinkering with these genres in the problem plays, Shakespeare became decidedly more experimental. The Romances share certain characteristics.
- A redemptive plotline with a happy ending involving the reuniting of long-separated family members.
- Fantastical elements, often manifest as a Greek God deus ex machina (such as Zeus in Cymbeline or Diana in Pericles).
- A mixture of "civilized" and "pastoral" scenes (such as the gentry and the island residents in The Tempest). This mixture can be anachronistic (such as prehistoric Britain mixing with imperial Rome in Cymbeline).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shakespeare's Late Romances."
Synonyms: RomanceSynonyms: love affair (n), love story (n), romanticism (n), butterfly (v), chat up (v), coquet (v), coquette (v), court (v), dally (v), flirt (v), mash (v), philander (v), solicit (v), woo (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absurdity | Farce, galimathias, amphigouri, rhapsody; farrago; (disorder); betise; extravagance, romance; sciamachy. |
Description | Work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press; fairy tale, nursery tale; fable, parable, apologue; dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker |
Falsehood | Invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct; romance; (imagine); cry "wolf!' |
Imagination | Conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey, whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare. |
Untruth | Invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance; (imagination); absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler;s tale, Canterbury tale, fairy tale, fake; claptrap. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm sorry, just give me a moment to redefine my girlish notions of romance. (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) I'm a raging epidemic of romance. (Dinosaur; writing credit: Walon Green; Thom Enriquez) All this time I've been looking for romance and all I had to do was steal something (O; writing credit: Brad Kaaya) Well, I'm a romance novelist (Romancing the Stone; writing credit: Diane Thomas.) Welcome to the world of romance. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
Lyrics | I forgot how nice romance is (The Longest Time; performing artist: Billy Joel) Romance and all its strategy leaves me battling with my pride (Sometimes When We Touch; performing artist: Dan Hill) And make romance (All She Wants to Do Is Dance; performing artist: Don Henley) Yes, it's my last chance, for romance, tonight (LAST DANCE; performing artist: DONNA SUMMER) Don't let the romance go by (Bailamos; performing artist: ENRIQUE IGLESIAS) | |
Clever | Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct; what they like to be is a man's last romance. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Romance with a Double Bass (1974) En romance paladino (1972) Romance of a Horsethief (1971) The Romance Express (1970) O Romance do Luachimo (1969) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Pharmacist's Mate 1st Class Jackie Welsh depetals a flower to settle an ageless question of romance, as Signalman 2nd Class Harold Howey records the event on film. Witnesses are Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Anna Welsh (left) and Aviation Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Evalyne Olsen. All four are stationed at Naval Air Station, New Orleans, Louisiana. The photograph was taken prior to December 1944. Credit: NAVY. |  | A bit of romance. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The young concubine: a romance of Indo-China. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Striker and his fiancee (sitdown strike romance) in the Women's Auxiliary room in Pengally Hall. Flint, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "Karama" a Japanese romance by (Vivian Grey), Mabel McKinley composer of "Anona" / / The Donalson Litho. Co., Newport, KY. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Jas. H. Wallick presents The dairy farm a romance of Sleepy Hollow by Eleanor Merron. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The intruder a powerful comedy drama of the East & West : the love and romance of an outlaw : by Robert J. Sherman. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Darkest Russia a grand romance of the Czar's realm. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Imre Kiralfy's historical romance, Venice, the bride of the sea at Olympia the greatest production of modern times at Olympia. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Honore De Balzac | Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. |
Oscar Wilde | To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance. |
| Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. | |
| Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. | |
| While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. | |
| Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance. | |
| Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. | |
Thomas Carlyle | No age seemed the age of romance to itself. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | He never read the Romance of the Forest, nor The Children of the Abbey |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | (r)Burn the perfumes of Arabia in his honour , exclaims the romance. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Andorra | The national language is Catalan, a romance language related to the Provençal groups. (references) |
Romania | As a result, the Romanian language, although containing elements of Slavic, Turkish, and other languages, is a romance language related to French and Italian. (references) | |
China | U.S. business' romance with China lay dormant for thirty years after WWII, but the love affair was rekindled in the late 1970's when China adopted a policy of "reform and opening up." Since the initiation of that policy, China's economy has grown at an average annual rate of nearly 9% , and the number of foreign firms doing business in or with China has grown exponentially. (references) | |
Travel | Romania | This language, which uses the Latin alphabet and is a Romance language, evolved from the Latin used in the Roman colony of Dacia. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama. Unity, totality of effect, is impossible; for besides the few pages last read all that is carried in mind is the mere plot of what has gone before. To the romance the novel is what photography is to painting. Its distinguishing principle, probability, corresponds to the literal actuality of the photograph and puts it distinctly into the category of reporting; whereas the free wing of the romancer enables him to mount to such altitudes of imagination as he may be fitted to attain; and the first three essentials of the literary art are imagination, imagination and imagination. The art of writing novels, such as it was, is long dead everywhere except in Russia, where it is new. Peace to its ashes -- some of which have a large sale. |
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| "Romance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.43% of the time. "Romance" is used about 915 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.43% | 864 | 8,194 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.49% | 32 | 61,292 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.53% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.55% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 915 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Romance" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Romance | Last name | 170 | 45,672 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Romance, AR 2. Romance, WV |
Expressions using "Romance": gothic romance ♦ redolent of romance ♦ romance about ♦ romance language ♦ romance languages ♦ romance languages and literature ♦ romance peoples ♦ the romance languages. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Romance": romance-adventures, romance-cubes, romance-speaking. | |
Ending with "Romance": adventure-romance, mock-romance, non-romance. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
romance | 11,136 | romance card | 132 |
romance online | 1,617 | romance literature | 124 |
romance vacation | 1,525 | true romance | 102 |
love and romance | 1,445 | romance author | 97 |
romance novel | 1,156 | romance tip | 97 |
romance dating | 451 | chemical lyrics romance | 94 |
platinum romance | 450 | free online romance novel | 86 |
romance chat | 409 | lyrics matchbook romance | 86 |
romance of the three kingdom | 395 | romance novel online | 84 |
romance book | 385 | lesbian romance | 84 |
romance story | 250 | romance reader | 81 |
a chemical romance | 243 | office romance | 80 |
romance horoscope | 241 | romance writer of america | 73 |
matchbook romance | 209 | chat rooms romance | 70 |
romance movie | 208 | romance quiz | 70 |
harlequin romance | 191 | romance of the three kingdom vii | 66 |
sailor moon romance | 179 | matchbox romance | 66 |
romance poem | 179 | romance sex | 65 |
audio romance book | 142 | romance language | 64 |
romance idea | 137 | romance writer | 64 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Romance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | romantizëm, romancë, roman kalorësiak, neolatin, histori dashurie (amour, amourette, love story). (various references) | |
Arabic | فكر بلغة رومانتكية, موسيقى عاطفية, نسج رواية, قصة حب (love story), غالى (exaggerate, overstrain, pitch), عاش قصة حب عنيفة, الروح أو العاطفة, رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, trick, warm, watery), رواية (fiction, narration, novel, recitation, relation, version), بالغ (adult, amplify, blow up, embroider, exaggerate, extreme, grown up, magnify, ostentatious, overdo, overdraw, overstate, overstep, play up, pubescent, strain a point). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ухажвам (court, hang about, hang around, rush, spark, woo), романски език (romanic), романски диалект, романски, романтичност, романтика (glamor, glamour), романс, роман (novel), разказвам небивалици, рицарски роман, небивалица, любовна история (affair, amour, gallantry, love affair, wing-ding). (various references) | |
Chinese | 言情. (various references) | |
Czech | romantika (romanticism), romance, povídka (story, tale), kouzlo (charm, lure, magic, savor, spell, trick, witchery), dobrodružný román, dobrodružný (adventurous). (various references) | |
Dutch | romance, Romaans (Romanesque). (various references) | |
Esperanto | romanco, latinida. (various references) | |
Farsi | کتاب رمان , افسانه (Fable, Fiction, Legend, Myth, Tale), رمان (Novel), داستان عاشقانه , بصورت تخیلی دراوردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | romanssi. (various references) | |
French | romance, roman (romanesque), vivre un roman d'amour, liaison amoureuse, laisser vagabonder son imagination, fabuler, broder. (various references) | |
German | Romanze (novelette). (various references) | |
Greek | ρωμάντζα, ρομάντζα, ρομάντζο, μυθιστόρημα (fiction, novel), μυθιστορία (novel), φαντασιολογώ, ειδύλλιο (idyl, idyll, love affair), εποποιία. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"פריז (exaggerate, overdo, overstate, strain a point), רומ ס". (various references) | |
Hungarian | románc, idill (idyl, idyll). (various references) | |
Indonesian | percintaan. (various references) | |
Italian | romanzo rosa, romanzo cavalleresco, romanzo (fantasy, novel, phantasy, Roman), romanza, romanticismo (romanticism), racconto (novelette, short story, story, tale, yarn). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 色気 (a shade of colour, charm, colouring, desire, glamor, interest in the opposite sex, poetry, seductiveness, sensuality, sex appeal, sexual passion), 艶聞 (love affair, ones love story), 艶事 (love affair), ロボット工学 (deluxe train, love seat, robotics, robotology, roman, romance car, romance seat, romanesque, silver-gray hair), 恋路 (love's pathway), 伝奇小説 , 伝奇 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ロマンス , で"きしょうせつ, で"き (appliances, biography, electric, electrical machinery, electricity, life story, light), つや"と (love affair), いろけ (a shade of colour, charm, colouring, desire, glamor, interest in the opposite sex, poetry, seductiveness, sensuality, sex appeal, sexual passion), "いじ (love's pathway), え"ぶ" (love affair, love letter, ones love story, redundancy in a text, salt, salt content). (various references) | |
Korean | 로망스어. (various references) | |
Manx | romanse, far-skeealeraght, far-skeeal (apologue, fable, fairy tale, fiction), cooish ghraih. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omanceray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | romancear (novelise, novelize), romance (novel, Roman, story), românico (romanic), novilatino, novela sentimental, novela (novel, novelette, short story, soap opera, story), idílio, história romanesca, ficção (fiction, figment), fantasiar (dream, fable, fancy, fantasize, kid), fábula (apologue, fable, fairy tale, fairytale, invention, legend, lie, story, tale), exagerar (aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, enhance, exaggerate, exceed, fuss, magnify, out-top, overact, overcharge, overcolor, overcolour, overdo, overdraw, overestimate, overstate, overstep, put it on, stretch, transvalue), conto (fable, fairytale, history, legend, narrative, short story, story, tale), aventura amorosa (amour, love-affair). (various references) | |
Romanian | romantism (romanticism), romanic (romanic), romanţat, romanţã (novelette), roman cavaleresc, roman (fiction, novel, Roman), plãsmuire (forgery, invention), limba romanicã, ficţiune (fabrication, fiction, negation, nonentity), episod romantic, da frâu liber imaginaţiei (give a free range to one's fancy). (various references) | |
Russian | романский (roman, romanesque, romanic), романские языки (romanic), романс, романический эпизод, роман романский, роман (affair, love affair, love-affair, novel, romancing). (various references) | |
Scottish | spleadh (a splay foot, boasting, flattering, ostentation), fionnsgeul (a romance, fable), ùirsgeul (fable, novel). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | romantika (romantics), romantičnost, romansa (love affair). (various references) | |
Spanish | romance (ballad, romanic). (various references) | |
Swedish | romantisk (fanciful, romantic), romantik (romanticism). (various references) | |
Thai | เรื่องรักใคร่, การผจญ ัย. (various references) | |
Turkish | romantizm (romanticism), romans, latin dil ailesinden diller, aşk hikâyesi (love story), aşk hikâyesi anlatmak, aşk romanı, atıp tutmak (drow the long bow, gas, rant), büyü (charm, enchantment, fascination, glamor, glamour, hex, hoodoo, incantation, magic, maya, medicine, sorcery, sortilege, spell, the black art, voodoo, witchcraft, witchery), cazibe (allure, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charm, charms, desirability, draw, drawing power, enchantment, enticement, fascination, feminene charms, gilt, glamor, glamour, gravitation, it, lure, magnetism, oomph, seduction, witchery), düşsel nitelik, kahramanlık hikâyesi, koşuk (ballad, verse), çekicilik (affinity, allurement, appeal, attraction, attractiveness, charisma, charm, comeliness, desirability, fascination, gilt, glamor, glamour, it, oomph, pull, seduction, sex appeal, sexiness, witchery), latin (Latin, roman), uydurmak (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, concoct, conform, cook, cook up, dream up, fabricate, fake up, fashion, feign, fib, fit, forge, frame, fudge, gear, improvise, invent, key, make up, manufacture, mint, quadrate, reconcile, spin, Square, square with, suit, syntonize, tailor, talk through one's hat, tally up, tell a fib, trump up, tune, tune up), latince kökenli (romanesque, romanic), latince kökenli dilde yazılmış kitap, latince kökenli diller (romanesque, the romance languages), macera (adventure, affair, business, business deal, case, cloak-and-dagger, exploit, flirt, flirtation, gallantry, matter), macera yazmak, martaval (bounce, bouncer, cock and bull story, hooey, hot air, story), masal (fable, fairy tale, fiction, story, tale, yarn), palavra atmak (boast, palaver), kuyruklu yalan (Corker, fairy tale, rouser, walloping lie, Whacker, whopper, whopping lie). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | романський (italic, romanesque, romanic), романтична література, романтика, роман (affair, novel), вигадувати (coin, conceit, concoct, contrive, devise, dream up, excogitate, fabricate, feign, fib, fudge, invent, make believe, mint, think out), перебільшувати (amplify, dramatize, exaggerate, heighten, magnify, overcolour, overdo, overstate, pad, pile up the agony, too go too far). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính lãng mạng sự thêu dệt, sự nói ngoa, sự bịa đặt (fabrication), mối tình lãng mạng sự mơ mộng. (various references) | |
Welsh | rhamanta, rhamant. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Romanicus. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | romanz. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Romance": romanced, romancer, romancers, romances. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Romance": chiromancer, chiromancers, necromancer, necromancers. (additional references) | |
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"Romance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Comanecj, Croyance, Monance, Ornance, pominki, ramence, remane, roace, roance, roemance, Romanet, romanica, romansch, romine, Romische, Rouane, rpmance, rwmac. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Romance" (pronounced rōma"ns or rō"mans) |
| 3 | -a" n s | advance, askance, chance, dance, enhance, expanse, finance, glance, Hance, lance, Nance, prance, Rance, refinance, stance, trance. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-m-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: carmen, cornea, enamor, macron, moaner. | |
-2 letters: acorn, cameo, caner, canoe, carom, comae, comer, crane, cream, crone, enorm, macer, macon, macro, manor, morae, nacre, namer, narco, ocean, ocrea, racon, ramen, rance, recon, reman, roman. | |
-3 letters: acme, acne, acre, aeon, aero, amen, arco, came, cane, care, carn, cero, coma, come, cone, core, corm, corn, cram. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-m-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: amelcorn, choreman, coenamor, cornmeal, romanced, romancer, romances. | |
+2 letters: aeronomic, amelcorns, anchormen, charwomen, coenamors, comanager, commander, cornerman, cornmeals, cremation, geomancer, manticore, mucronate, romancers. | |
+3 letters: acrimonies, androecium, camerlengo, cankerworm, carmagnole, ceremonial, chairwomen, chloramine, chromonema, cinemagoer, cochairmen, coenamored, comanagers, commandeer, commanders, commandery, commentary, complainer, coromandel, counterman, cremations, dormancies, enharmonic, geomancers, importance, macaronies, maceration, manometric, manticores, mascarpone, monarchies, monstrance, mordancies, necromancy, nomarchies, normalcies, oceanarium. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Frequency | 13. Cities 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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