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語源

From 中期英語 romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman language”, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus (“roman”, adjective) from rōmānus (“a Roman”). Doublet of Romansch.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /rə(ʊ)ˈman(t)s/, /ˈrəʊman(t)s/
• (General American) IPA: /roʊˈmæn(t)s/, /ˈroʊˌmæn(t)s/
• (North India) IPA: /roˈmæns/, [roː.mæːns]
• (South India) IPA: /rɵˈmæns/, /ˈroˌmæns/
• 韻: -æns, -əʊmæns

名詞

romance (countable and uncountable, plural romances)

1. An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
   • 1981, Paul Dean, Matt Frenette, Mike Reno, “Working for the Weekend”, in Get Lucky, performed by Loverboy:

     Everybody's working for the weekend
     Everybody wants a new romance.

2. A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
3. Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
4. A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
5. A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     `Will you undertake the task? We give you complete freedom, and as a reward you will, we believe, have the credit of presenting to the world the most wonderful history, as distinguished from romance, that its records can show.'

6. A tale of high adventure.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 152:

     Could one have known the past histories of some of the oddly-selected couples who shared everything in common, many a romance might have been written during what, to all outward appearances, was a dull and prosaic time to most lookers-on!

7. A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.

   the romance of cruising down the Nile.

   • 2026 May, Stacie Stukin, “Historic Opportunity”, in Architectural Digest, volume 83, number 4, page 74:

     There's a comforting romance to the space—the chalky white walls, the soaring ceilings, the natural light flooding in through the windows, all of which create a warm, flattering glow.

8. A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.
9. An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
10. An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.

    His life was a romance.

11. A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.

    She was so full of romance she would forget what she was supposed to be doing.

12. (music) A sentimental piece of music; a romanza.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:romance.

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “intimate relationship”): platonic, platonic relationship, platonic love, nonromance, antiromance (with respect to intimacy)

派生語

派生した語

• → Japanese: ロマンス
• → Korean: 로맨스 (romaenseu)

動詞

romance (third-person singular simple present romances, present participle romancing, simple past and past participle romanced)

1. (transitive) To woo; to court.
   • 2015 November 15, Meghan Blythe Adams, “Renegade Sex: Compulsory Sexuality and Charmed Magic Circles in the Mass Effect series”, in Loading… The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association‎, volume 9, number 14, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2018, page 47:

     A female Shepard can romance bisexual Yeoman Kelly Chambers, but doing so does not yield a Paramour achievement or an implied sex scene the way that romancing ‘official’ interests does. Similarly, the player can attempt to romance the Asari Samara or her Ardat-Yakshi daughter Morinth, but the former will refuse and sex with the latter will kill Shepard.

   • 2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC‎:

     In the ghetto, the gentle Barber romances a defiant washerwoman, Hannah, who is played by Chaplin's wife at the time, Paulette Goddard.

2. (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
3. (intransitive) To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.

同意語

• (to woo, court): make love, put the moves on, solicit; see also Thesaurus:woo

派生語

アナグラム

• Cameron, Canmore, Cremona, Marenco, Menorca