romance

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /rə(ʊ)ˈman(t)s/|/ˈrəʊman(t)s/    美 /roʊˈmæn(t)s/|/ˈroʊˌmæn(t)s/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair. countable,uncountable
    — Everybody's working for the weekend Everybody wants a new romance.
  2. A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone. countable,uncountable
  3. Idealized love which is pure or beautiful. countable,uncountable
  4. A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship. countable,uncountable
  5. A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc. countable,uncountable
    — `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. countable,uncountable
    — 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. countable,uncountable
    — the romance of cruising down the Nile.
  8. A literary or filmic genre about idealized love. countable,uncountable
  9. An embellished account of something; an idealized lie. countable,uncountable
  10. An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances. countable,uncountable
    — His life was a romance.
  11. A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real. countable,uncountable
    — She was so full of romance she would forget what she was supposed to be doing.
  12. A sentimental piece of music; a romanza. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To woo; to court. transitive
    — 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.
  2. To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc. intransitive
  3. To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air. intransitive

词形变化

romances plural romances present,singular,third-person romancing participle,present romanced participle,past romanced past

词汇关系

近义词
put the moves on solicit
反义词
platonic platonic relationship platonic love nonromance antiromance
衍生词
autumn romance bromance crimance cyberromance dark romance erom family romance fauxmance gaslight romance May-December romance May-September romance metahistorical romance outromance paranormal romance photo-romance romaction romanceable romance fraud romanceful Romancelandia romanceless romancelet romancelike romance scam romance tourism romance tourist romancey romance zone romancical romancist romancy romantasy romantic romantica romantopia scientific romance showmance sismance sweet savage romance thrillmance womance romancing the bone unromanced

词源

词源 1
From Middle English 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.
词源 2
From Middle English 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.
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