romances
Woos with passion
Romances is the plural of romance, covering love affairs, love stories, and the genre of fiction featuring them.
Medieval romances were tales of chivalric adventure.
As a verb, romances means to court or woo: He romances her with flowers and poetry.
It can also mean to idealize or treat fancifully: The documentary romances the past.
New and unusual
- storyAccount of events
- fictionImagined narrative work
- novellaShort fictional book
- plotStoryline or land parcel
narrative · bodice-ripper · Harlequin · Mills & Boon · protagonist · heroine · hero · happily-ever-after
Romantic entanglement outside commitment
- relationshipConnection between entities
- courtshipSeeking another's romantic favor
- passionIntense emotional drive
- infatuationShort-lived intense attraction
fling · dalliance · liaison · tryst · amour · sweetheart · paramour · flame
novel
New and unusual
plot · narrative · bodice-ripper · Harlequin · Mills & Boon · protagonist · heroine · hero · happily-ever-after · series
affair
Romantic entanglement outside commitment
- relationshipConnection between entities
- courtshipSeeking another's romantic favor
- passionIntense emotional drive
infatuation · fling · dalliance · liaison · tryst · amour · sweetheart · paramour · flame · devotion
- filmsfeature films, action films, horror films, comedies, dramas
- mythsmyth, legend, fable, fairy tale, folk tale
- Early English VerseChaucer, Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Donne
- Byzantine textshagiographies, hagiography, homilies, histories, historiography
- Hewlett Worksnovels, historical novels, collected works
- Medieval Poetrycanso, Dante, Carmina Burana, chansons de geste, chansons
romancesfriendships
Voluntary affectionate relationships
enmities · rivalries · acquaintanceships · estrangements · strangers
romancesindifferences
Absences of interest
apathies · coldness · detachments · alienations · estrangements
romancestragedies
Dramas with fatal endings
realist fiction · naturalism · social realism · technical manuals · documentaries
- historical romanceLove story set historically
- romance novelistAuthor of love stories
- My Chemical Romance"Black Parade" performers
- romance novelFiction about romantic love
- doomed romance
- summer romanceBrief warm-season relationship