romance
noun
a novel, movie, or genre of popular fiction in which characters fall in love or begin a romantic relationship (often used attributively).
romanced
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past participleof romance.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof romance.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
romancenouna novel, movie, or genre of popular fiction in which characters fall in love or begin a romantic relationship (often used attributively).
Example Sentences
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Instead, this scrumptious dinner romanced me in an entirely different way.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2023
Part of Faye’s anime backstory involves her being romanced by a con man who fakes his death to saddle her with his insurmountable debts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2021
But his role as a small-time hood who romanced American ingenue Jean Seberg in Godard's "Breathless" earned him international stardom.
From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2021
Both of their dating lives made for gossip fodder at the time, by the way, as Damon dated Winona Ryder and Affleck romanced Gwyneth Paltrow.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2021
Woolf began coming in regularly, parking his Stetson on the table and pointing Greenberg’s nose in the Racing Form while he romanced her.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
