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{
"term": "romance",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "an exciting, usually short, relationship between two people who are in love with each other",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a holiday romance"
},
{
"text": "They had a **whirlwind romance**."
},
{
"text": "Everyone knows that online romances never work out."
},
{
"text": "Have you ever had an office romance?"
},
{
"text": "He was still recovering from a failed romance."
},
{
"text": "It ruined their perfect fairy-tale romance."
},
{
"text": "They had a brief romance in the eighties."
},
{
"text": "We're seeing more interracial romances in the movies."
},
{
"text": "the true story of a real-life romance"
},
{
"text": "a summer romance"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["brief", "broken", "whirlwind"],
"verb + romance": ["have", "begin", "start"],
"romance + verb": ["blossom", "begin", "end"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "love or the feeling of being in love",
"labels": "(especially North American English)(informal)(informal)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Spring is here and romance is in the air."
},
{
"text": "How can you put the romance back into your marriage?"
},
{
"text": "Most of her songs are about love and romance."
},
{
"text": "People find romance in strange places."
}
],
"topics": ["Family and relationships"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["true", "interracial"],
"verb + romance": ["find"],
"romance + verb": ["be in the air", "bloom"],
"phrases": ["love and romance"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a story about a love affair",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She's a compulsive reader of romances."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "a feeling of excitement and adventure, especially connected to a particular place or activity",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the romance of travel"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "a story of excitement and adventure, often set in the past",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "medieval romances"
}
],
"topics": ["Literature and writing"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rəʊˈmæns//ˈrəʊmæns/",
"audio": "ro/romance/romance__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈrəʊmæns/",
"audio": "ro/romance/romance__us_4_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Romance, originally denoting a composition in the vernacular as opposed to works in Latin. Early use denoted vernacular verse on the theme of chivalry; the sense ‘genre centred on romantic love’ dates from the mid 17th cent."
}