Phrase Hound found 31 phrases and 30 compound words that contain romance. The most common are listed below. Open romance in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 31
- Chemical Romance
- Romance languageAny language descended from Latin.
- Rhaeto-RomanceA group of related Romance languages spoken in north and north-eastern Italy and southeastern Switzerland, or any of these languages individually.
- Ibero-RomanceThe linguistic zone or continuum of Romance languages in the Iberian Peninsula.
- family romanceA romantic story about a given family.
- Gallo-RomanceA language family, comprising Romance languages spoken in France, northern Italy and northern Spain. Specifically Walloon, Picard, Norman, French, Franco-Provençal, although broader definitions include Occitano-Romance, Rhaeto-Romance …
- dark romanceA book genre featuring romantic relationships in which characters act in unethical or abusive ways.
- African RomanceAn extinct Romance language spoken in the various provinces of Roman Africa by the African Romans under the later Roman Empire and its various post-Roman successor states in the region.
- scientific romanceScience fiction, especially its early form in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- romance fraudSynonym of romance scam: A confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim in order to commit fraud.
- photo-romanceA romantic story illustrated with sequential photographs in the style of a comic strip, published in magazines etc.
- Romance languagesplural of Romance language: Any language descended from Latin.
- romance tourismTravel to another region or jurisdiction to seek a romantic relationship.
- Proto-RomanceThe reconstructed ancestor of all the Romance languages.
- Italo-Romanceof or relating to the Romance lects spoken mainly in the Italian Peninsula, Sicily and Corsica
- romance scamA confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim in order to commit fraud.
- Raeto-RomanceAlternative form of Rhaeto-Romance: A group of related Romance languages spoken in north and north-eastern Italy and southeastern Switzerland, or any of these languages individually.
- Rheto-RomanceAlternative form of Rhaeto-Romance: A group of related Romance languages spoken in north and north-eastern Italy and southeastern Switzerland, or any of these languages individually.
- metahistorical romanceA type of postmodern historical fiction.
- pan-Romanceencompassing every Romance language
- romance zoneThe situation of being in a romantic relationship with someone.
- autumn romanceA romantic relationship which occurs in a later stage of life.
- romance scamsplural of romance scam: A confidence trick involving feigning romantic intentions towards a victim in order to commit fraud.
- paranormal romanceA subgenre of romance literature and speculative fiction involving paranormal elements, such as vampires, werewolves, ghosts, or time travel.
- gaslight romanceA subgenre of fantasy and historical fiction that combines Gothic elements with a Victorian or Edwardian setting.
Compound words 30
- romantasyA genre of literature combining elements of both romance and fantasy.
- bromanceA close but nonsexual relationship between two or more men.
- RomancelandiaThe sphere or community of romance writers, readers, and novels.
- sismanceA close but nonsexual relationship between two women.
- romactionAction romance.
- showmanceA romance between cast members or production crew of a play or television show (often reality shows) which only lasts the duration of the show, or its filming.
- fauxmanceA fake romance between celebrities, arranged for publicity.
- romantopiaA fantasy world which serves as an ideal setting for romance as typically imagined by women.
- womanceA close but nonsexual relationship between women.
- antiromanceA novel or other work that rejects the conventions of the romance form.