I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a holiday romance (= a brief romantic relationship with someone you meet on holiday )
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It was just a holiday romance; I never saw him again.
Romance language
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
historical
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He added two further novels of historical romance to his published output before 1900.
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Although his stories are actually more historical adventure than romance , later romance authors owe him a great debt.
true
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Once across the threshold a change came over me, which was the stuff of true romance .
■ NOUN
fiction
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Like most romance fiction , Medical Romances incorporate a number of standard romance conventions.
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As romance fiction blossomed, a number of organizations and publications developed to serve it.
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Reviews, lists, and bibliographies are other sources of romance fiction information for the librarian.
holiday
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All it is is a harmless holiday romance .
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They want photo stories, tales of holiday romances , horoscopes and advice columns as well as free gifts of make-up and jewellery.
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Ships in the night, holiday romance etcetera, he would have sensibly suggested, and of course he would have been right.
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It was just a holiday romance really; he never knew about you, you know, never had any idea.
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You won't be the first or last man or woman who gets themself involved in a holiday romance .
novel
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The pleasures of the romance novel are not dissimilar from those of the chocolate bar; naughty but nice.
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Daniels, Dorothy Has produced approximately 150 romance novels , mostly of the gothic variety.
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Leave it to the intellectuals to deride romance novels .
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Their marriage has been the kind you read about in romance novels .
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As for the staying power of the romance novel in the 21st century, history may well be on its side.
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Persistent, pervasive, and omnipresent, romance novels are everywhere.
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Wind from the south always boded evil in the old romance novels .
reader
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Romance readers' advisory service is connecting the romance reader with the proper romantic story.
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But who are the romance readers and just what is it that makes the romance genre so appealing to so many people?
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Obviously, then, the average romance reader is not the undereducated, uninformed, subnormal, frustrated housewife of recent mythology.
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Depending upon the size of the library or the system, one or more romance readers may be found.
whirlwind
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It was a whirlwind romance , all right, and nobody could talk any sense into Freda.
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They had a whirlwind romance , and after a few months she'd started hinting for a ring.
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She was introduced to Harry last summer by her younger sister, Michelle, and married him after a whirlwind romance .
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But at Eindhoven the organisation was unable to prevent fraternisation between the two sides leaping from mutual suspicion into whirlwind romance .
■ VERB
read
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Any second-hand bookseller or charity shop can testify to a roaring trade in the once read and discarded romance volume.
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Library patrons who read romances are other good sources of information.
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Is reading the romance a politically progressive or politically reactionary move?
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Their marriage has been the kind you read about in romance novels.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
passport to success/health/romance etc
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Early on he learned - the hard way - that it was the passport to success.
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Finally, don't assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
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The Union Jack will be our passport to romance.
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We live in an increasingly competitive world where good qualifications are a passport to success.
storybook ending/romance etc
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Well, so much for a storybook ending.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It was a beautiful summer romance , but they knew it couldn't last.
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My romance with Lois did not survive our high school graduation.
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Richard and Penny had made no great secret of their romance , even though they were both married.
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Some viewers objected to the interracial romance the show portrays.
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the romance of life in the Wild West
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As the romance proceeded, she became restless.
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Evening is a good time for friendships and romance , but do not be too intense.
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In the other local superstores, people have only one thing on their minds, but it is not romance .
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Invariably, romances form aboard the plane.
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Most married women surveyed said they were not victims of love at first sight and not moved to marriage by romance .
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The romance of the movies was to a significant degree an entrepreneurial romance.
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The connection between ancient houses and mysteries of a shameful kind has its origin in Gothic romance .
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When I heard the word goons, it became no longer a matter of romance but a war of wills.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The experts seem to be romancing about figments of their imagination; he can see nothing that they are talking about.