Romance

Noun

 * 1) An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
 * 2) A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
 * 3) Love which is pure or beautiful.
 * 4) A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
 * 5) A story or novel dealing with idealised love.
 * 6) An embellished account of something; an idealised lie.

Verb

 * 1) Woo; court.
 * 2)  To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.

Thesaurus
Marchen, Western, Western story, Westerner, adulterous affair, adultery, adventure, adventure story, affair, allegorize, allegory, amor, amour, apologue, apparition, autism, autistic thinking, balderdash, bedtime story, brainchild, brown-nose, bubble, butter up, canard, capriccio, caprice, chimera, color, colorfulness, concoction, court, cuckoldry, dalliance, delirium, dereism, dereistic thinking, detective story, divertissement, dreamery, eidolon, entanglement, epic, eternal triangle, exaggeration, excitement, extravaganza, fable, fabliau, fabrication, fabulize, fairy tale, fancy, fantasia, fantasque, fantasy, fascination, fib, fiction, fictionalize, figment, flatter, flight of fancy, flirtation, folk story, folktale, forbidden love, forgery, gest, ghost story, glamor, hallucination, hanky-panky, horse opera, humoresque, ideal, idealism, ideality, idealization, idealize, idle fancy, idyll, illicit love, illusion, imagery, imagination, imaginative exercise, imaginativeness, imagining, impracticality, infidelity, insubstantial image, intrigue, invention, legend, liaison, love, love affair, love story, maggot, make-believe, medley, melodrama, mystery, mystery story, myth, mythicize, mythify, mythologize, mythology, mythos, narrate, narrative, nonsense, nostalgia, novel, novelize, nursery tale, pander to, parable, phantasm, phantom, play of fancy, potpourri, prevarication, quixotism, quixotize, quixotry, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, relationship, report, retell, rhapsodize, romantic tie, romanticism, romanticize, romanza, science fiction, sentiment, shocker, sick fancy, soft-soap, space fiction, space opera, storify, story, suspense story, tall story, tall tale, tell, tell a story, thick-coming fancies, thriller, triangle, trip, unfaithfulness, unfold a tale, unpracticalness, unrealism, unreality, utopianism, utopianize, vapor, vision, visionariness, whim, whimsy, white lie, whodunit, wildest dreams, wish fulfillment, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, woo, work of fiction

Etymology
From romans, roumance <  romanz, romant <  *undefined:. Cognate to Italian romanzo: and romanzo:.

Noun

 * Finnish: romanssi
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Manx: cooish ghraih
 * Portuguese: romance
 * Spanish:


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 * German:
 * Italian: (d'amore)


 * Latin: fabula


 * Italian:

Anagrams

 * Cameron, Cremona, nom race

Noun

 * 1) novel (work of prose fiction)

Adjective

 * 1) Romance

Noun

 * 1) romance, love affair
 * 2) novel

Synonyms

 * novela

Etymology
From Provençal romans: <  *undefined:. Cognates include Old French romanz:, whence the modern French noun roman:.