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romancer

romancer noun: one who romances another; one who attempt to win another's affections via romance.

Noun (1)

romancer (plural romancers)

  1. One who romances another; one who attempt to win another's affections via romance.
    • Once I used to believe I was such a great romancer / then I came home to a woman that I did not recognize.1977, “The Stranger”, in Billy Joel (music), The Stranger
  2. (dated) A person who writes romance or adventure stories, especially stories relating to chivalry, knights, heroes, quests, etc.
    • [W]hat was once taught by sages, and believed by monarchs, has shared the fate of everything human and has sunk from its pristine rank to become the material and the machinery of poets and romancers.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 26
    • No nightmare dreamed by man, no wild invention of the romancer, can ever equal the living horror of that place, and the weird crying of those voices of the night, as we clung like shipwrecked mariners to a raft, and tossed on the black, unfathomed wilderness of air.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Noun (2)

romancer (plural romancers)

  1. A romantic film or television show.
    • Barbara Cartland scratched out this trusty 19th-century romancer concerning the scrumptious Serena Staverly (Diana Rigg), who has the dreadful misfortune to be lost in a game of cards to the flint-hearted Lord Justin.1989 March 6, The Sydney Morning Herald, page 8S, column 1

Forms of romancer

pluralromancers

Origin of romancer

From Old French romanceour. By surface analysis, romance + -er.

From romance + -er (“Variety -er”).

Questions about romancer

What does romancer mean?
Romancer means one who romances another; one who attempt to win another's affections via romance.
What part of speech is romancer?
Romancer is a noun.
What is the plural of romancer?
The plural of romancer is romancers.

Words near romancer in the dictionary

  1. Romancelandia
  2. romanceless
  3. romancelet
  4. romancelets
  5. romancelike
  6. romancer
  7. romancers
  8. romances
  9. romancey
  10. Romanche
  11. romancical

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