romance
/ˈroʊˌmæn(t)s/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.32 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Everybody's working for the weekend Everybody wants a new romance."
- "`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.'"
- "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!"
- "the romance of cruising down the Nile."
- "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."
- "His life was a romance."
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: romauns, -, romanz, rōmānicē, rōmānicus
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈroʊˌmæn(t)s/
- British English: /rə(ʊ)ˈman(t)s/