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# romance

«romance» in Mova's school dictionary: **a loving relationship between two people** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (romance, a romance, romances); verb (romance — old-fashioned)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A romance is a loving relationship between two people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romance/#m1)

2) Romance is the feeling of love and excitement in such a relationship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romance/#m2)

3) A romance is a story or film about love. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romance/#m3)

4) Romance can also mean an exciting, mysterious feeling about something: «the romance of travel». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romance/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and films, romance is a type (genre) of story about falling in love. In everyday life children see romance in fairy tales like Cinderella. Phrases: «a holiday romance», «romance novel», «the romance of the sea».

### examples

- Cinderella and the prince have a romance in the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romance/#x1)
- My big sister likes romance films. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romance/#x2)
- The book was full of adventure and romance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romance/#x3)
- They met at school and their romance began. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romance/#x4)
- Grandpa talked about the romance of travelling by steam train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romance/#x5)
- This is an adventure story, not a romance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romance/#x6)
- The romance of the earth is, after all, the most wonderful of all romances. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romance/#x7)

### note

Countable (a romance) and uncountable (romance as a feeling). Adjective: «romantic». «Romance languages» (French, Spanish, Italian…) come from Latin, the language of Rome, not from «love».

### In the corpora

- [Most TV romances end after the show; real relationships take much longer than a few weeks of filming.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/54-reality-tv-what-is-staged-and-what-is-real/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «romance» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/romance/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.