Meaning & use
romance
A relationship or feeling involving love and emotional excitement, or a genre of fiction centered on love stories.
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Their romance began during a chance meeting on a crowded train.
She loves reading historical romance novels set in the nineteenth century.
A note on using this word
Romance can describe a real relationship, a literary genre, or the excitement and mystery surrounding an idea, as in 'the romance of travel.'
Words with a similar meaning
love affaircourtship
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