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romant

romant is the obsolete form of romaunt.

Meaning of romaunt

Noun

romaunt (plural romaunts)

  1. (archaic) A romantic story told in verse; a romance.
    • They are forbidden to read, save what their Superior permitted[…]; but lo! their ears are at the command of idle minstrels, and their eyes study empty romaunts.1819, Walter Scott, “Ivanhoe”, in The Waverley Novels, Volume IV, published 1844, page 612

Verb

romant (third-person singular simple present romants, present participle romanting, simple past and past participle romanted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To romanticize.

Forms of romant

Noun
pluralromants
Verb
third-person singular presentromants
present participleromanting
past participleromanted
pastromanted

Words formed from romant

Questions about romant

What does romant mean?
Romant means to romanticize.
What is romant the obsolete form of?
Romant is the obsolete form of romaunt.
What part of speech is romant?
Romant is a verb.
What is the past tense of romant?
The past tense of romant is romanted.

Words near romant in the dictionary

  1. Romansh
  2. Romanshorn
  3. Romanski
  4. Romanskis
  5. Romanson
  6. romant
  7. romantasies
  8. romantasy
  9. romanted
  10. romantic
  11. romantic comedies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: romant (page history and authors); romaunt (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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