Romance

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.

   “Everybody's working for the weekend Everybody wants a new romance.”

2. isim A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
3. isim Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
4. isim A story, novel, film, etc., centred around an idealized love relationship.
5. isim A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.

   “`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.'”

6. isim A tale of high adventure.

   “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!”

7. isim A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.

   “the romance of cruising down the Nile.”

8. isim A literary or filmic genre about idealized love.
9. isim An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
10. isim An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.

    “His life was a romance.”

11. isim A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.

    “She was so full of romance she would forget what she was supposed to be doing.”

12. isim A sentimental piece of music; a romanza.
13. fiil To woo; to court.

    “In the ghetto, the gentle Barber romances a defiant washerwoman, Hannah, who is played by Chaplin's wife at the time, Paulette Goddard.”

14. fiil To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
15. fiil To talk extravagantly and imaginatively; to build castles in the air.
16. isim The group of languages and cultures which are derived from Vulgar Latin.
17. sıfat Of or dealing with languages or cultures derived from Roman influence and Latin: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Galician, Romanian, Catalan, Occitan, etc.

    “In this paper we will concentrate on the problem posed by Iberian Romance languages (i.e. Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish), …”