Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A verse romance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See romant.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A romantic story in verse.”

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun archaic A romantic story told in verse; a romance.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old French romans, romant-, romance; see romance.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old French romaunt (modern roman), variant of romaunz ‘romance’.

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