Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to romance
Participle: romanced
Gerund: romancing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | romance |
| you | romance |
| he;she;it | romances |
| we | romance |
| you | romance |
| they | romance |
Perfect
| I | have romanced |
| you | have romanced |
| he;she;it | has romanced |
| we | have romanced |
| you | have romanced |
| they | have romanced |
Past
| I | romanced |
| you | romanced |
| he;she;it | romanced |
| we | romanced |
| you | romanced |
| they | romanced |
Pluperfect
| I | had romanced |
| you | had romanced |
| he;she;it | had romanced |
| we | had romanced |
| you | had romanced |
| they | had romanced |
Future
| I | will romance |
| you | will romance |
| he;she;it | will romance |
| we | will romance |
| you | will romance |
| they | will romance |
Future Perfect
| I | will have romanced |
| you | will have romanced |
| he;she;it | will have romanced |
| we | will have romanced |
| you | will have romanced |
| they | will have romanced |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | romance |
| you | romance |
| he;she;it | romance |
| we | romance |
| you | romance |
| they | romance |
Perfect
| I | have romanced |
| you | have romanced |
| he;she;it | have romanced |
| we | have romanced |
| you | have romanced |
| they | have romanced |
Imperfect
| I | romanced |
| you | romanced |
| he;she;it | romanced |
| we | romanced |
| you | romanced |
| they | romanced |
Pluperfect
| I | had romanced |
| you | had romanced |
| he;she;it | had romanced |
| we | had romanced |
| you | had romanced |
| they | had romanced |
Conditional
Present
| I | would romance |
| you | would romance |
| he;she;it | would romance |
| we | would romance |
| you | would romance |
| they | would romance |
Perfect
| I | would have romanced |
| you | would have romanced |
| he;she;it | would have romanced |
| we | would have romanced |
| you | would have romanced |
| they | would have romanced |
Imperative
| you | romance |
| we | Let's romance |
| you | romance |
Verbs conjugated like 'romance'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'romance'
romage,
romanise,
romanize,
romant,
advance,
amanse,
askance,
balance,
bedance,
bounce,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to solicit in love
- address, bedear, chase after, court, endear, make love, pitch woo, put the moves on, solicit, spark, woo
- to woo|court
- solicit, woo
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1300, "story of a hero's adventures," also (c.1330), "vernacular language of France" (as opposed to Latin), from O.Fr. romanz "verse narrative," originally an adverb, "in the vernacular language," from V.L. *romanice scribere "to write in a Romance language" (one developed from Latin instead of Frankish), from L. Romanicus "of or in the Roman style," from Romanus "Roman" (see Roman). The connecting notion is that medieval vernacular tales were usually about chivalric adventure. Literary sense extended by 1667 to "a love story." Extended 1612 to other modern languages derived from Latin (Spanish, Italian, etc.). Meaning "adventurous quality" first recorded 1801; that of "love affair, idealistic quality" is from 1916. The verb meaning "court as a lover" is from 1942.
2. From Middle English romauns, roumance, borrowed from Anglo-Norman and Old French romanz, romans (the vernacular language of France, as opposed to Latin), from Medieval Latin rōmānicē, Vulgar Latin rōmānicē (“in the Roman language”, adverb), from Latin rōmānicus (“roman”, adjective) from rōmānus (“a Roman”). Doublet of Romansch.
Sample Sentences
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A female Shepard can romance bisexual Yeoman Kelly Chambers, but doing so does not yield a Paramour achievement or an implied sex scene the way that romancing ‘official’ interests does. Similarly, the player can attempt to romance the Asari Samara or her Ardat-Yakshi daughter Morinth, but the former will refuse and sex with the latter will kill Shepard. [2015 November 15, Meghan Blythe Adams, “Renegade Sex: Compulsory Sexuality and Charmed Magic Circles in the Mass Effect series”, in Loading… The Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association, volume 9, number 14, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 May 2018, page 47:]
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In the ghetto, the gentle Barber romances a defiant washerwoman, Hannah, who is played by Chaplin's wife at the time, Paulette Goddard. [2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC:]