romance

noun

• 1a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love:in search of romance
• love, especially when sentimental or idealized:he asked her for a date and romance blossomed
• an exciting, enjoyable love affair, especially one that is not serious or long-lasting:a summer romance
• a book or movie dealing with love in a sentimental or idealized way:light historical romances
• a genre of fiction dealing with love in an idealized way:wartime passion from the master of romance

• 2a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life:the beauty and romance of the night
• wild exaggeration; picturesque falsehood:she slammed the claims as “pure romance, complete fiction.”
• a work of fiction dealing with events remote from real life.

• 3a medieval tale dealing with a hero of chivalry, of the kind common in the Romance languages:the Arthurian romances
• the literary genre of romance.

• 4 Music a short informal piece.

verb

• 1court; woo:the wealthy estate owner romanced her
• informal seek the attention or patronage of (someone), especially by use of flattery:he is being romanced by the big boys in New York
• [no object] engage in a love affair:we start romancing

• 2another term for romanticize.to a certain degree I am romancing the past