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発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈmæns/, /ˈɹoʊˌmæns/, enPR: rō-măns'
• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈmæns/, /ˈɹəʊˌmæns/
• 韻: -æns, -əʊmæns

名詞

romance (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 romances)

1. 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.'

2. 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!

3. An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
4. A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
5. Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
6. A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
7. A story or novel dealing with idealized love.
8. An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
9. An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.

   His life was a romance.

10. 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.

11. (music) A romanza, or sentimental ballad.

引用

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

反意語

• (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 (三人称単数 現在形 romances, 現在分詞 romancing, 過去形および過去分詞形 romanced)

1. (transitive) To woo; to court.
   • 2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     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

• romancing the bone

アナグラム

• Cameron, Canmore, Cremona, Marenco, Menorca