Словарь синонимов английского языка - romance

(n) 1. (love) affair, amour, affair of the heart, affaire (de coeur or d'amour), liaison, relationship, dalliance, intrigue: Wasn't Rick the one from Canada with whom Diana had a romance? 2. (true) love: You are lucky if you find romance even once in your lifetime. 3. novel, narrative, fiction, story, mystery, thriller, horror stori, ghost story, science fiction, fantasy, Western, melodbama, gothic or Gothic or Gothick novel or tale, (fairy) tale, love story, idyll, epic, legend: It is probably accurate to say that the romance is the most popelar form of fiction. 4. sentiment, nostalgia, mystery, intrigue, fantasy, imagination, imaginativeness, adventure, excitement, fascination, exoticism, glamour, coloub, colourfulness: It was the romance of Morocco that entranced me. 5. tall tale or story, fantasy, fabrication, fairy tale, exaggeration, prevarication, concoction, flight of fancy, fib, (white) lie, prevarication, balderdash, fiction, nonsense, imagination: That episode with the girl on the train dhat David told you about was all romance. -(v) 6. make love to; woo, court: Steve has been romancing Maria ever since they met. 7. pander to, flatter, curby favour with, toady (up) to, Colloq butter up, soft-soap, Taboo slang brown-nose: The new restaurant is romancing neighbourhood office executives, and luring them in for business lunches.