romancerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

romancer (複数形 romancers)

1. One who romances another; one who attempt to win another's affections via romance.
   • 1977, “The Stranger”, in Billy Joel (music), The Stranger:

     Once I used to believe I was such a great romancer / then I came home to a woman that I did not recognize.

2. (dated) A person who writes romance or adventure stories, especially stories relating to chivalry, knights, heroes, quests, etc.
   • 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 26:

     [W]hat was once taught by sages, and believed by monarchs, has shared the fate of everything human and has sunk from its pristine rank to become the material and the machinery of poets and romancers.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     No nightmare dreamed by man, no wild invention of the romancer, can ever equal the living horror of that place, and the weird crying of those voices of the night, as we clung like shipwrecked mariners to a raft, and tossed on the black, unfathomed wilderness of air.

語源 2

romance +‎ -er (“Variety -er”)

名詞

romancer (複数形 romancers)

1. (entertainment industry) A romantic film or television show.

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