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1. romance
   a play in which the emphasis is on love and/or adventure. Example: 'Still-Love,' a romance by Robert Patrick, 1m1f.
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2. romance
   [adj] - relating to languages derived from Latin 2. [n] - the group of languages derived from Latin 3. [n] - a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life 4. [v] - have a love affair with 5. [v] - tell romantic or exaggerated lies
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3. romance
   In literature, tales of love and chivalric adventure, in verse or prose, that became popular in France about 1200 and spread throughout Europe. It had antecedents in many works from classical...
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4. Romance
   Ro·mance' noun [ Middle English romance , romant , romaunt , Old French romanz , romans , romant , roman , French roman , romance , from Late Latin Romanice in the Roman languag...
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5. Romance
   Ro·mance' adjective Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance .
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6. Romance
   Ro·mance' intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Romanced ; present participle & verbal noun Romancing .] To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories. « A v...
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7. romance
   1. 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 b...
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8. Romance
   adjective relating to languages derived from Latin; `Romance languages`
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9. Romance
   Romance language noun the group of languages derived from Latin
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10. romance
    noun an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
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11. Romance
    • (n.) An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance. • (a.) Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance. • (n.) A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piec...
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12. romance
    literary form, usually characterized by its treatment of chivalry, that came into being in France in the mid-12th century. It had antecedents in many ... [23 related articles]
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13. romance
    romance Someone who romances or who has a romantic spirit, sentiment, emotion, or desire.
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14. romance
    long narrative poems in French about courtly culture and secret love that triumphed in English with poems such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer's The Knight's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde.
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15. romance
    An imaginative story full of love and adventure.
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16. romance
    
    • a relationship between two lovers
    • an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
    • the group of languages derived from Latin
    • a story dealing with love
    • a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
    
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17. romance
    romance [O.Fr.,=something written in the popular language, i.e., a Romance language]. The roman of the Middle Ages was a form of chivalric and romantic literature widely diffused throughout Europe from the 11th cent. With the Provençal troubadours the roman was a form of narrative, originally s...
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18. Romance
    This film genre centers on the love of a couple, usually played by a leading man and leading lady, and the trials and tribulations through which they travel. The emotion of love is often depicted as overcoming any burden, or its import causes the sacrifice of the one for the other. . .`in the name o...
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19. romance
    In literature, tales of love and chivalric adventure, in verse or prose, that became popular in France about 1200 and spread throughout Europe
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20. Romance
    (music) :This article is about the musical term, for other uses see romance-->) has a centuries-long history. Applied to narrative ballads in Spain, it came to be used by the 18th century for simple lyrical pieces not only for voice, but also for instruments alone. During the 18th and 19th...
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21. Romance
    (genre) As a literary genre of high culture, `romance` or `chivalric romance` is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight err...
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22. Romance
    (play) `Romance` is a play by David Mamet. It opened in 2005 off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York and was also performed at London`s Almeida Theatre, starring John Mahoney, later that year. A fast-paced, madcap comedy-farce, the main action of the play occurs in a c...
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23. Romance
    (Luis Miguel album) | Name = Romance | Type = studio | single 1 = Inolvidable | single 1 date = 1991 | single 2 = Como | single 2 date = 1992 | single 3 = Mucho Corazon | single 3 date = 1992 | single 4 = No Sé Tu | single 4 date = 1992 --> --> `Romance` is a bolero album released b...
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24. Romance
    (novel) `Romance` is a novel co-authored by Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. It was the second of their three collaborations. Romance was eventually published by George Bell and Sons in London and by McClure, Phillips in New York, in March 1904. According to Max Saunders, Conr...
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25. Romance
    (guitar piece) "`Romance Anónimo`" (Anonymous Romance) is a piece for guitar, also known as "`Estudio en Mi de Rubira`" (Study in E by Rubira), "`Spanish Romance`", "`Romance de España`", "`Romance of the Guitar`", "`R...
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