ROMANCE


Meaning of ROMANCE in English

noun

1 love affair

ADJECTIVE

▪ brief

▪ broken

▪ whirlwind

They married after a whirlwind ~.

▪ budding

the budding ~ between Richard and Elise

▪ holiday ( BrE ), summer

▪ office

Have you ever had an office ~?

▪ online

Everyone knows that online ~s never work out.

▪ teenage

▪ interracial ( esp. AmE )

We're seeing more interracial ~s in the movies.

▪ fairy-tale

It ruined their perfect fairy-tale ~.

▪ real-life

the true story of a real-life ~

▪ doomed

▪ failed

He was still recovering from a failed ~.

VERB + ROMANCE

▪ have

They had a brief ~ in the eighties.

▪ begin , start

ROMANCE + VERB

▪ blossom

▪ begin

▪ end

2 romantic feeling

ADJECTIVE

▪ true

▪ interracial ( esp. AmE )

VERB + ROMANCE

▪ find

People find ~ in strange places.

ROMANCE + VERB

▪ be in the air

Could ~ be in the air for the young prince?

▪ bloom

PHRASES

▪ love and ~

Most of her songs are about love and ~.

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