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New Romantic

New Romantic noun: a person involved in the New Romanticism movement.

Noun

New Romantic (plural New Romantics)

  1. A person involved in the New Romanticism movement.
    • As a band influenced by the European electronic underground, and not the popular New Romantics like Duran Duran, Moev was out of step with both the corporate rock that dominated the Canadian music industry and Vancouver's thriving punk scene.2011, Michael Barclay, Ian A. D. Jack, Jason Schneider, Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance 1985-1995
    • But by the early 1980s the energy had largely drained from the punk movement, giving way to the synthesizers, eyeliner and bouffants of so-called New Romantic bands like Duran Duran and Adam and the Ants.2023 November 30, Matt Phillips, “Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Is Dead at 65”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of New Romantic

pluralNew Romantics

Origin of New Romantic

* Rhymes: -æntɪk

Questions about New Romantic

What does New Romantic mean?
New Romantic means a person involved in the New Romanticism movement.
What part of speech is New Romantic?
New Romantic is a noun.
What is the plural of New Romantic?
The plural of New Romantic is New Romantics.

Words near New Romantic in the dictionary

  1. New Righters
  2. New Rizal
  3. New Roads
  4. New Rochelle
  5. New Rockford
  6. New Romantic
  7. New Romanticism
  8. New Romantics
  9. New Rome
  10. New Romney
  11. New Ross

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