(rō·mans′, rō′mans) noun
1. Adventurous, heroic, or picturesque character or nature; strange and fascinating appeal: the romance of faraway places.
2. A disposition to delight in the mysterious or adventurous: a child of romance.
3. A love affair.
4. A long narrative from medieval legend, presenting chivalrous ideals and aristocratic society and usually involving heroes in strange adventures and affairs of love.
5. Any long fictitious narrative embodying scenes and events remote from common life and filled with extravagant adventures and often long digressions.
6. The class of literature consisting of romances (defs. 4 and 5).
7. An extravagant or fanciful falsehood.
8. Music A simple rhythmic melody, often sentimental, suggestive of a love song. See synonyms under DREAM, FICTION.
—v. (rō·mans′) ·manced, ·manc·ing v.i.
1. To tell romances.
2. To think or act in a romantic manner.
3. Colloq. To make love.
—v.t.
4. Colloq. To make love to; woo. [<OF romans a story written in French <L Romanice in Roman style <Romanicus Roman]

(rō·mans′) adjective
Pertaining or belonging to one or more, or all, of the languages which have developed from the vulgar Latin speech, and which exist now as French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Provençal, Rhaeto–Romanic, and Rumanian.
—noun One, or all collectively, of the Romance languages.