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antiromances

antiromances is the plural of antiromance.

Meaning of antiromance

Noun

antiromance (plural antiromances)

  1. A novel or other work that rejects the conventions of the romance form.
    • Congreve articulates here for the English a distinction already implicit in such antiromances as Don Quixote (1605), Charles Sorel's Berger extravagant (1627-28), or Paul Scarron's novels[…]1990, Julie Stone Peters, Congreve, the Drama, and the Printed Word, page 114

Questions about antiromances

What is antiromances the plural of?
Antiromances is the plural of antiromance.

Words near antiromances in the dictionary

  1. antirodent
  2. antirodeo
  3. antiroll
  4. antirollover
  5. antiromance
  6. antiromances
  7. antiromantic
  8. antiromanticism
  9. antiromantics
  10. antiroom
  11. antirooms

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