romance

/ɹoʊmˈæns/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. 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

adjective

1. relating to languages derived from Latin
   “Romance languages”

verb

1. 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”
4. tell romantic or exaggerated lies
   “This author romanced his trip to an exotic country”

Synonyms for romance

• love affair
• romanticism
• Romance language
• Latinian language
• love story
• Latin
• woo
• court
• solicit
• chat up
• flirt
• dally
• butterfly
• coquet
• coquette
• philander
• mash

Words that rhyme with romance

• advance
• chance
• dance
• lance
• finance
• prance
• circumstance
• freelance
• askance
• expanse
• glance
• trance
• enhance
• perchance
• stance
• happenstance
• nance
• refinance
• alamance
• anse
• crance
• flashdance
• hance
• lafrance
• mance
• mccance
• pomerance
• pomeranz
• rance
• schanz