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  • n  a relationship between two lovers
  • n  an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
  • n  the group of languages derived from Latin
  • n  a story dealing with love
  • n  a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life
  • v  make amorous advances towards
  • v  have a love affair with
  • v  talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
  • v  tell romantic or exaggerated lies
    This author romanced his trip to an exotic country
  • a  relating to languages derived from Latin

  • Romance novels, an inexpensive escape for women, are helping some publishers hide from the worst of the recession.
  • As with her more than 150 previous, best-selling romance novels, her new book, Blood Brothers, is certain to set readers' hearts aflutter.
  • Breeding is easy, but survival requires romance too.
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  • Jack Nicholson in Guardian Unlimited
    Nicholson says nearly all his contemporaries tell him they want "that one last big romance."
  • Ricky Gervais in Newsweek
    I'm a skeptic across-the-board of ghosts and elves and ESP and the afterlife. But it doesn't change the fact that the romance of Hollywood lets you take someone on board on a journey against their will, really, if it's done well,Gervais said...

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