Romance
English - Vietnamese dictionary
romance /rə'mæns/- danh từ
- (Romance) những ngôn ngữ rôman
- (Romance) những ngôn ngữ rôman
- tính từ
- (Romance) Rôman (ngôn ngữ)
- (Romance) Rôman (ngôn ngữ)
- danh từ
- truyện anh hùng hiệp sĩ (thời Trung cổ, thường viết theo thể thơ)
- tiểu thuyết mơ mông xa thực tế
- câu chuyện tình lãng mạng; mối tình lãng mạng
- sự mơ mộng, tính lãng mạng
- sự thêu dệt, sự bịa đặt, sự nói ngoa, sự cường điệu
- (âm nhạc) Rôman (khúc)
- nội động từ
- thêu dệt, bịa đặt; nói ngoa, cường điệu
Advanced English dictionary
+ adjective[only before noun] Romance languages, such as French, Italian and Spanish, are languages that developed from Latin
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 (love) affair, amour, affair of the heart, affaire (de coeur or d'amour), liaison, relationship, dalliance, intrigue:
Wasn't Rick the one from Canada with whom Diana had a romance?
2 (true) love:
You are lucky if you find romance even once in your lifetime.
3 novel, narrative, fiction, story, mystery, thriller, horror story, ghost story, science fiction, fantasy, Western, melodrama, gothic or Gothic or Gothick novel or tale, (fairy) tale, love story, idyll, epic, legend:
It is probably accurate to say that the romance is the most popular form of fiction
4 sentiment, nostalgia, mystery, intrigue, fantasy, imagination, imaginativeness, adventure, excitement, fascination, exoticism, glamour, colour, colourfulness:
It was the romance of Morocco that entranced me.
5 tall tale or story, fantasy, fabrication, fairy tale, exaggeration, prevarication, concoction, flight of fancy, fib, (white) lie, prevarication, balderdash, fiction, nonsense, imagination:
That episode with the girl on the train that David told you about was all romance.
v.
6 make love to; woo, court:
Steve has been romancing Maria ever since they met.
7 pander to, flatter, curry favour with, toady (up) to, Colloq butter up, soft-soap, Taboo Slang brown-nose:
The new restaurant is romancing neighbourhood office executives, and luring them in for business lunches.
Collocation
1 love affair
ADJ.
brief | broken | whirlwind
They married after a whirlwind romance.
| holiday | teenage
VERB + ROMANCE
have
They had a brief romance in the eighties.
ROMANCE + VERB
blossom
2 romantic feeling
ADJ.
true
VERB + ROMANCE
find
People find romance in strange places.
ROMANCE + VERB
be in the air
Could romance be in the air for the young prince?
PHRASES
love and romance
Most of her songs are about love and romance.
Concise dictionary
romances|romanced|romancingrəʊ'mæns ,rə'-noun
+a relationship between two lovers
+an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
+the group of languages derived from Latin
+a story dealing with love
+a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
verb
+make amorous advances towards
+have a love affair with
+talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
+tell romantic or exaggerated lies
adj.
+relating to languages derived from Latin
