romance
31ROMANCE — n. f. Chanson tendre ou plaintive. C’est un tel qui a fait les paroles, qui a composé l’air de cette romance. Une jolie romance. Chanter une romance. Il chante bien la romance. Il se dit aussi de l’Air sur lequel se chante une romance. Jouer une… …
32romance — ro|mance1 [ rou mæns, rou,mæns ] noun * 1. ) count an exciting and usually short romantic relationship: summer/office romance: a summer romance with a happy ending whirlwind romance (=a very sudden and exciting one): Elaine and Michael married… …
33romance — s m 1 s m y adj m y f Cada una de las lenguas derivadas del latín, como el español, el catalán, el francés o el rumano: hablar en romance, una lengua romance 2 s m Composición poética cultivada desde la Edad Media, en la que riman en forma… …
34romance — British romance writing has witnessed an astonishing profusion of popular novels since 1960, as well as successful commercial earnings. Modern trends towards greater realism, action and simplicity in plot have strengthened the genre, despite… …
35romance — I. noun Etymology: Middle English romauns, from Anglo French romanz French, narrative in French, from Medieval Latin Romanice in a vernacular (as opposed to Latin), from Late Latin Romanus Gallo Romance speaker (as opposed to a Frank), from Latin …
36ROMANCE — s. f. Ancienne histoire écrite en petits vers simples et naïfs, dont le sujet est ordinairement touchant, et qui est faite pour être chantée. La romance d Alexis. Les romances du Cid. Il se dit, par extension, de Toute chanson tendre ou… …
37romance — {{11}}romance (n.) c.1300, story of a hero s adventures, also (early 14c.), vernacular language of France (as opposed to Latin), from O.Fr. romanz verse narrative, originally an adverb, in the vernacular language, from V.L. *romanice scribere to… …
38romance — [13] A romance is etymologically a story written in the language ‘of Rome’. The word comes from Old French romanz, which denoted ‘something written in French (as opposed to classical Latin)’. This went back to the Vulgar Latin adverb *rōmānicē… …
39romance — n. 1) to find romance 2) a whirlwind romance * * * [rə(ʊ) mæns] a whirlwind romance to find romance …
40romance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. novel, love story; exaggeration, fiction, tall story; love affair, gest, fantasy. See description, imagination, falsehood. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Experiences that excite the imagination] Syn. fancy,… …
