romance
romance is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance.
- 2.A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.
- 3.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).
- 4.(Mus.) A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
- 5.Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
- 6.To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories. A very brave officer, but apt to romance. Walpole.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurd
- absurdity
- absurdness
- alogy
- anticlimax
- bathos
- blunder
- boutade
- bull
- contradictory
- delusion
- disorder
- egregious
- escapade
- exaggeration
- extravagance
- extravagant
- fantastic
- farce
- farrago
- fool
- foolish
- fustian
- gibberish
- imbecility
- inconsistency
- inconsistent
- jargon
- macaronic
- meaning
- monkey
- moonshine
- muddle
- mummery
- name
- nest
- nonsense
- nonsensical
- nugacity
- paradox
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is romance.
- What is an adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life, was a romance called?
- What is a dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance called?
- What is 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) called?
- What is a short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza called?
- What is of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance called?
- What is to write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories. A very brave officer, but apt to romance. Walpole called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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