3 N‑UNCOUNT You can refer to the pleasure and excitement of doing something new or exciting as romance . □ We want to recreate the romance and excitement that used to be part of rail journeys.
4 N‑COUNT A romance is a novel or film about a love affair. □ Her taste in fiction was for chunky historical romances.
5 N‑UNCOUNT Romance is used to refer to novels about love affairs. □ Since taking up writing romance in 1967 she has brought out over fifty books.
6 ADJ [ADJ n] Romance languages are languages such as French, Spanish, and Italian, which come from Latin. [TECHNICAL ]
Ro|man|esque /roʊ məne sk/ ADJ [usu ADJ n] Romanesque architecture is in the style that was common in western Europe around the eleventh century. It is characterized by rounded arches and thick pillars.
Ro|ma|nian /ruːme I niən/ (Romanians ) also Rumanian
1 ADJ [usu ADJ n] Romanian means belonging or relating to Romania, or to its people, language, or culture.
2 N‑COUNT A Romanian is a person who comes from Romania.
3 N‑UNCOUNT Romanian is the language spoken in Romania.
Ro|man nu |mer|al (Roman numerals ) N‑COUNT [usu pl] Roman numerals are the letters used by the ancient Romans to represent numbers, for example I, IV, VIII, and XL, which represent 1, 4, 8, and 40. Roman numerals are still sometimes used today.
ro|man|tic ◆◇◇ /roʊmæ nt I k/ (romantics )
1 ADJ Someone who is romantic or does romantic things says and does things that make their wife, husband, girlfriend, or boyfriend feel special and loved. □ When we're together, all he talks about is business. I wish he were more romantic.
2 ADJ [ADJ n] Romantic means connected with sexual love. □ He was not interested in a romantic relationship with Ingrid. ● ro|man|ti|cal|ly ADV □ We are not romantically involved.
3 ADJ [ADJ n] A romantic play, film, or story describes or represents a love affair. □ It is a lovely romantic comedy, well worth seeing. □ …romantic novels.
4 ADJ [usu ADJ n] If you say that someone has a romantic view or idea of something, you are critical of them because their view of it is unrealistic and they think that thing is better or more exciting than it really is. [DISAPPROVAL ] □ He has a romantic view of rural society. ● N‑COUNT A romantic is a person who has romantic views. □ You're a hopeless romantic.
5 ADJ Something that is romantic is beautiful in a way that strongly affects your feelings. □ Seacliff House is one of the most romantic ruins in Scotland. ● ro|man|ti|cal|ly ADV □ …the romantically named weeping love grass.
6 ADJ [ADJ n] Romantic means connected with the artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which was concerned with the expression of the individual's feelings and emotions. □ …the poems and prose of the English romantic poets.
ro|man|ti|cism /roʊmæ nt I s I zəm/
1 N‑UNCOUNT Romanticism is attitudes, ideals and feelings which are romantic rather than realistic. □ Her determined romanticism was worrying me.
2 N‑UNCOUNT Romanticism is the artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which was concerned with the expression of the individual's feelings and emotions.
ro|man|ti|cize /roʊmæ nt I sa I z/ (romanticizes , romanticizing , romanticized ) in BRIT, also use romanticise VERB If you romanticize someone or something, you think or talk about them in a way which is not at all realistic and which makes them seem better than they really are. □ [V n] He romanticized the past as he became disillusioned with his present. ● ro|man|ti|cized ADJ □ The film takes a highly romanticized view of life on the streets.
Roma|ny /roʊ məni/ (Romanies )
1 N‑COUNT A Romany is a member of a race of people who travel from place to place, usually living in caravans, rather than living in one place.
2 ADJ [usu ADJ n] Romany means related or connected to the Romany people. □ …the Romany community.
Romeo /roʊ mioʊ/ (Romeos ) N‑COUNT You can describe a man as a Romeo if you want to indicate that he is very much in love with a woman, or that he frequently has sexual relationships with different women. [JOURNALISM , HUMOROUS , INFORMAL ] □ …one of Hollywood's most notorious Romeos.
romp /rɒ mp/ (romps , romping , romped )
1 VERB Journalists use romp in expressions like romp home , romp in , or romp to victory , to say that a person or horse has won a race or competition very easily. □ [V adv/prep] Mr Foster romped home with 141 votes.
2 VERB When children or animals romp , they play noisily and happily. □ [V ] Dogs and little children romped happily in the garden.
roof ◆◇◇ /ruː f/ (roofs ) The plural can be pronounced /ruː fs/ or /ruː vz/. 1 N‑COUNT The roof of a building is the covering on top of it that protects the people and things inside from the weather. □ …a small stone cottage with a red slate roof.
2 N‑COUNT The roof of a car or other vehicle is the top part of it, which protects passengers or goods from the weather. □ The car rolled onto its roof, trapping him.
3 N‑COUNT The roof of your mouth is the highest part of the inside of your mouth. □ [+ of ] She clicked her tongue against the roof of her mouth.
4 PHRASE If the level of something such as the price of a product or the rate of inflation goes through the roof , it suddenly increases very rapidly indeed. [INFORMAL ] □ Prices for Korean art have gone through the roof.
5 PHRASE If you hit the roof or go through the roof , you become very angry indeed, and usually show your anger by shouting at someone. [INFORMAL ] □ Sergeant Long will hit the roof when I tell him you've gone off.