{
    "term": "romance",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "an exciting, usually short, relationship between two people who are in love with each other",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a holiday romance"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They had a **whirlwind romance**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Everyone knows that online romances never work out."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Have you ever had an office romance?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was still recovering from a failed romance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It ruined their perfect fairy-tale romance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They had a brief romance in the eighties."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're seeing more interracial romances in the movies."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the true story of a real-life romance"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a summer romance"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["brief", "broken", "whirlwind"],
                "verb + romance": ["have", "begin", "start"],
                "romance + verb": ["blossom", "begin", "end"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "love or the feeling of being in love",
            "labels": "(especially North American English)(informal)(informal)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Spring is here and romance is in the air."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How can you put the romance back into your marriage?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of her songs are about love and romance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "People find romance in strange places."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Family and relationships"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["true", "interracial"],
                "verb + romance": ["find"],
                "romance + verb": ["be in the air", "bloom"],
                "phrases": ["love and romance"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a story about a love affair",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She's a compulsive reader of romances."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a feeling of excitement and adventure, especially connected to a particular place or activity",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the romance of travel"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a story of excitement and adventure, often set in the past",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "medieval romances"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rəʊˈmæns//ˈrəʊmæns/",
                "audio": "ro/romance/romance__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈrəʊmæns/",
                "audio": "ro/romance/romance__us_4_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Romance, originally denoting a composition in the vernacular as opposed to works in Latin. Early use denoted vernacular verse on the theme of chivalry; the sense ‘genre centred on romantic love’ dates from the mid 17th cent."
}