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family romances

family romances is the plural of family romance.

Meaning of family romance

Noun

family romance (plural family romances)

  1. A romantic story about a given family.
  2. A childhood fantasy whereby a child imagines that their real parents are in fact royalty or otherwise of high birth; (loosely), the emotional ties linking the various members of a family.
    • Every encounter with friend or foe, every clash with or submission to authority bears the perverse traces of family romance.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae

Questions about family romances

What is family romances the plural of?
Family romances is the plural of family romance.

Words near family romances in the dictionary

  1. family restaurants
  2. family reunification
  3. family reunion
  4. family reunions
  5. family romance
  6. family romances
  7. family roof
  8. family roofs
  9. family room
  10. family rooms
  11. family size

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Adapted from Wiktionary: family romances (page history and authors); family romance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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