romance

UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciations'Romance': /rəˈmæns/; 'romance': /ˈrəʊmæns/, /rəʊˈmæns/, /rəˈmæns/

US:USA pronunciation: IPAUSA pronunciation: IPA/n., adj. roʊˈmæns, ˈroʊmæns; v. roʊˈmæns/

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling'Romance': (rō mans, rōmans); 'romance': (n., adj. rō mans, rōmans; v. rō mans)


Inflections of 'romance' (v): (⇒ conjugate)
romances
v 3rd person singular
romancing
v pres p
romanced
v past
romanced
v past p
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2026:

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romance n(love affair)romance nm
  aventura nf
 Andrew and Tara's romance lasted for years.
 El romance de Andrew y Tara duró años.
romance nuncountable (love)romance nm
  amor nm
 Imogen doesn't think romance is worth the effort.
 Imogen no cree que el romance valga la pena.
romance nuncountable (mysterious, exciting quality)misterio nm
 Ben was struck by the romance of the ruins.
 A Ben lo atrapó el misterio de las ruinas.
romance n(novel: love story) (libro)romance nm
  novela rosa loc nom f
  historia de amor nf + loc adj
 Linda likes reading romances.
 A Linda le gusta leer romances.
romance [sb] vtr(be romantic with [sb])cortejar a vtr + prep
  enamorar a vtr + prep
  galantear a vtr + prep
 Glenn romanced his girlfriend by whisking her away to Paris for the weekend.
 Glenn cortejó a su novia llevándosela un fin de semana a París.
romance n(type of music piece)romanza nf
 The guitarist was playing a Spanish romance.
 El guitarrista estaba tocando una romanza española.
Romance adj(language: derived from Latin)romance adj mf
 Mentonasc is a Romance dialect spoken in south-east France.
 El Mentonasc es un dialecto romance que se habla en el sureste de Francia.
Romance n(Romance language group)romance nm
 The term Romance refers to languages that developed from Latin.
 El término "romance" se refiere a las lenguas que devienen del latín.
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WordReference English-Spanish Dictionary © 2026:

Compound Forms:
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Romance language n(French, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.)lengua romance nf + adj mf
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'romance' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:
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Collocations: a [passionate, whirlwind, summer, fleeting] romance, turned out to be a [bad, summer] romance, a [need, desire, thirst, hunger] for romance, more...

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