- [countable] an exciting, usually short, relationship between two people who are in love with each other
- a holiday romance
- They had a whirlwind romance.
Extra Examples- Everyone knows that online romances never work out.
- Have you ever had an office romance?
- He was still recovering from a failed romance.
- It ruined their perfect fairy-tale romance.
- They had a brief romance in the eighties.
- We're seeing more interracial romances in the movies.
- the true story of a real-life romance
- a summer romance
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- brief
- broken
- whirlwind
- …
- have
- begin
- start
- …
- blossom
- begin
- end
- …
- [uncountable] love or the feeling of being in love
- Spring is here and romance is in the air.
- How can you put the romance back into your marriage?
Collocations Marriage and divorceMarriage and divorceRomance- fall/be (madly/deeply/hopelessly) in love (with somebody)
- be/believe in/fall in love at first sight
- be/find true love/the love of your life
- suffer (from) (the pains/pangs of) unrequited love
- have/feel/show/express great/deep/genuine affection for somebody/something
- meet/marry your husband/wife/partner/fiancé/fiancée/boyfriend/girlfriend
- have/go on a (blind) date
- be going out with/(especially North American English) dating a guy/girl/boy/man/woman
- move in with/live with your boyfriend/girlfriend/partner
- get/be engaged/married/divorced
- arrange/plan a wedding
- have a big wedding/a honeymoon/a happy marriage
- have/enter into an arranged marriage
- call off/cancel/postpone your wedding
- invite somebody to/go to/attend a wedding/a wedding ceremony/a wedding reception
- conduct/perform a wedding ceremony
- exchange rings/wedding vows/marriage vows
- congratulate/toast/raise a glass to the happy couple
- be/go on honeymoon (with your wife/husband)
- celebrate your first (wedding) anniversary
- be unfaithful to/(informal) cheat on your husband/wife/partner/fiancé/fiancée/boyfriend/girlfriend
- have an affair (with somebody)
- break off/end an engagement/a relationship
- break up with/split up with/ (informal) dump your boyfriend/girlfriend/partner
- separate from/be separated from/leave/divorce your husband/wife/partner
- annul/dissolve a marriage
- apply for/ask for/go through/get a divorce
- get/gain/be awarded/have/lose custody of the children
- pay alimony/child support (to your ex-wife/husband/partner)
Extra ExamplesTopics Family and relationshipsb2- Most of her songs are about love and romance.
- People find romance in strange places.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- true
- interracial
- find
- be in the air
- bloom
- love and romance
- [countable] a story about a love affair
- She's a compulsive reader of romances.
- [uncountable] a feeling of excitement and adventure, especially connected to a particular place or activity
- the romance of travel
- [countable] a story of excitement and adventure, often set in the past
- medieval romances
Word OriginMiddle English: from Romance, originally denoting a composition in the vernacular as opposed to works in Latin. Early use denoted vernacular verse on the theme of chivalry; the sense ‘genre centred on romantic love’ dates from the mid 17th cent.
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