Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 75
Romance (n.) A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.
Romance (n.) The languages, or rather the several dialects, which were originally forms of popular or vulgar Latin, and have now developed into Italian. Spanish, French, etc. (called the Romanic languages).
Romance (n.) (Mus.) A short lyric tale set to music; a song or short instrumental piece in ballad style; a romanza.
Romance (n.) A love affair, esp. one in which the lovers display their deep affection openly, by romantic gestures.
Syn: Fable; novel; fiction; tale.
Romance (a.) Of or pertaining to the language or dialects known as Romance.
Romanced (imp. & p. p.) of Romance.
Romancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Romance.
Romance (v. i.) To write or tell romances; to indulge in extravagant stories.
A very brave officer, but apt to romance. -- Walpole.
Romance (a.) Relating to languages derived from Latin; "Romance languages" [syn: Romance, Latin].
Romance (n.) A relationship between two lovers [syn: love affair, romance].
Romance (n.) An exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) [syn: romanticism, romance].
Romance (n.) The group of languages derived from Latin [syn: Romance, Romance language, Latinian language].
Romance (n.) A story dealing with love [syn: love story, romance].
Romance (n.) A novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life.
Romance (v.) Make amorous advances towards; "John is courting Mary" [syn: woo, court, romance, solicit].
Romance (v.) Have a love affair with.
Romance (v.) Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women" [syn: chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash].
Romance (v.) Tell romantic or exaggerated lies; "This author romanced his trip to an exotic country."
Romance (n.) Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination -- free, lawless, immune to bit and rein. Your novelist is a poor creature, as Carlyle might say -- a mere reporter. He may invent his characters and plot, but he must not imagine anything taking place that might not occur, albeit his entire narrative is candidly a lie. Why he imposes this hard condition on himself, and "drags at each remove a lengthening chain" of his own forging he can explain in ten thick volumes without illuminating by so much as a candle's ray the black profound of his own ignorance of the matter. There are great novels, for great writers have "laid waste their powers" to write them, but it remains true that far and away the most fascinating fiction that we have is "The Thousand and One Nights."
Romancer (n.) One who romances.
Romancist (n.) A romancer. [R.]
Romancy (a.) Romantic. [R.]
Romanesque (a.) (Arch.) Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire, but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th.
Romanesque (a.) Of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful.
Romanesque style (Arch.), That which grew up from the attempts of barbarous people to copy Roman architecture and apply it to their own purposes. This term is loosely applied to all the styles of Western Europe, from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to the appearance of Gothic architecture.
Romanesque (n.) Romanesque style.
Romanesque (n.) A style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and the Gothic styles after 1000 AD; characterized by round arches and vaults and by the substitution of piers for columns and profuse ornament and arcades [syn: Romanesque, Romanesque architecture].
Romania (n.) 羅馬尼亞 Romania is a sovereign state located in Southeastern Europe. It borders the Black Sea, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Hungary, Serbia, and Moldova. It has an area of 238,397 square kilometres (92,046 sq mi) and a temperate-continental climate. With almost 20 million inhabitants, the country is the seventh most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city, Bucharest, is the sixth-largest city in the EU, with 1,883,425 inhabitants as of 2011. [8]
The River Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany and flows in a general southeast direction for 2,857 km (1775 mi), coursing through ten countries before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Romania from the north to the southwest, include Moldoveanu, at 2,544 m (8,346 ft). [9]
Modern Romania was formed in 1859 through a personal union of the Danubian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The new state, officially named Romania since 1866, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. At the end of World War I, Transylvania, Bukovina and Bessarabia united with the sovereign Kingdom of Romania. During World War II, Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union, fighting side by side with the Wehrmacht until 1944, when it joined the Allied powers and faced occupation by the Red Army forces. Romania lost several territories, of which Northern Transylvania was regained after the war. Following the war, Romania became a socialist republic and member of the Warsaw Pact. After the 1989 Revolution, Romania began a transition towards democracy and a capitalist market economy.
Romania is the 59th most populated country in the world and ranks well on the Human Development Index. [10] [11] Following rapid economic growth in the early 2000s, Romania has an economy predominantly based on services, and is a producer and net exporter of machines and electric energy, featuring companies like Automobile Dacia and OMV Petrom. It has been a member of NATO since 2004, and part of the European Union since 2007. A strong majority of the population identify themselves as Eastern Orthodox Christians and are native speakers of Romanian, a Romance language. The cultural history of Romania is often referred to when dealing with influential artists, musicians, inventors and sportspeople.
Romanic
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Romanic (n.) Of or pertaining to any or all of the various languages which, during the Middle Ages, sprung out of the old Roman, or popular form of Latin, as the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Provencal, etc.
Romanic (n.) Related to the Roman people by descent; -- said especially of races and nations speaking any of the Romanic tongues.
Romanish (a.) Pertaining to Romanism.
Romanism (n.) The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion.
Romanist (n.) One who adheres to Romanism.
Romanized (imp. & p. p.) of Romanize.
Romanizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Romanize.
Romanize (v. t.) To Latinize; to fill with Latin words or idioms.
Romanize (v. t.) To convert to the Roman Catholic religion.
Romanize (v. i.) To use Latin words and idioms.
Romanize (v. i.) To conform to Roman Catholic opinions, customs, or modes of speech.
Romanizer (n.) One who Romanizes.
Romansch (n.) The language of the Grisons in Switzerland, a corruption of the Latin.
Romant (n.) A romaunt.
Romantic (a.) Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.
Romantic (a.) Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.
Romantic (a.) Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets.
Romantic (a.) Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.
Romantical (a.) Romantic.
Romanticaly (adv.) In a romantic manner.
Romanticism (n.) A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.
Romanticist (n.) One who advocates romanticism in modern literature.
Romanticly (adv.) Romantically.
Romanticness (n.) The state or quality of being romantic; widness; fancifulness.
Romany (n.) A gypsy.
Romany (n.) The language spoken among themselves by the gypsies.
Romanza (n.) See Romance, 5.
Romaunt (n.) A romantic story in verse; as, the "Romaunt of the Rose."
Romble (v.& n.) Rumble.
Rombowline (n.) Old, condemned canvas, rope, etc., unfit for use except in chafing gear.
Romeine (n.) Alt. of Romeite
Romeite (n.) A mineral of a hyacinth or honey-yellow color, occuring in square octahedrons. It is an antimonate of calcium.
Romekin (n.) A drinking cup.
Rome penny () Alt. of Rome scot.
Rome scot () See Peter pence, under Peter.
Romeward (adv.) Toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church.
Romeward (a.) Tending or directed toward Rome, or toward the Roman Catholic Church.
Romic (n.) A method of notation for all spoken sounds, proposed by Mr. Sweet; -- so called because it is based on the common Roman-letter alphabet. It is like the palaeotype of Mr. Ellis in the general plan, but simpler.
Romish (a.) Belonging or relating to Rome, or to the Roman Catholic Church; -- frequently used in a disparaging sense; as, the Romish church; the Romish religion, ritual, or ceremonies.
Romist (n.) A Roman Catholic.
Romped (imp. & p. p.) of Romp.
Romping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Romp.
Romp (v. i.) To play rudely and boisterously; to leap and frisk about in play.
Romp (n.) A girl who indulges in boisterous play.
Romp (n.) Rude, boisterous play or frolic; rough sport.
Romping (a.) Inclined to romp; indulging in romps.
Rompingly (adv.) In a romping manner.
Rompish (a.) Given to rude play; inclined to romp.
Rompu (a.) Broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as a chevron, a bend, or the like.
Roncador (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of California sciaenoid food fishes, especially {Roncador Stearnsi}, which is an excellent market fish, and the red roncador ({Corvina saturna} syn. {Johnius saturna}).
Ronchamp (n.) Is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.
It is located between the Vosges and the Jura mountains.
Ronchamp chapel (n.) (English: Our Lady of the Heights; full name in French: Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp) 廊香教堂；是位於法國東部弗朗什孔泰大區上索恩省廊香鎮的一座羅馬天主教聖母朝聖小聖堂，由法國-瑞士建築師勒·柯比意於1950-1955年完成的。[1] 被認為是柯比意最傑出的作品之一，也是20世紀教堂建築的一個重要典範。2016年被列為世界遺產。
Is a Roman Catholic chapel in Ronchamp, France. Built in 1950-1955, it is one of the finest examples of the architecture of Franco-Swiss architect Le Corbusier. The chapel is a working religious building and is under the guardianship of the private foundation Association de l’Œuvre de Notre-Dame du Haut. [2] It attracts 80,000 visitors each year. [2]
Ronchil (n.) An American marine food fish (Bathymaster signatus) of the North Pacific coast, allied to the tilefish.
Ronco (n.) See Croaker, n., 2. (a).
Rondache (n.) A circular shield carried by foot soldiers.
Ronde (n.) A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.
Rondeau (n.) A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule.
Rondeau (n.) See Rondo, 1.
Rondel (n.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
Rondel (n.) Same as Rondeau.
Rondel (n.) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth.
Rondeletia (n.) A tropical genus of rubiaceous shrubs which often have brilliant flowers.
Rondle (n.) A rondeau.
Rondle (n.) A round mass, plate, or disk; especially (Metal.), the crust or scale which forms upon the surface of molten metal in the crucible.
Rondo (n.) A composition, vocal or instrumental, commonly of a lively, cheerful character, in which the first strain recurs after each of the other strains.
Rondo (n.) See Rondeau, 1.
Rondure (n.) A round; a circle.
Rondure (n.) Roundness; plumpness.
Rong () imp. & p. p. of Ring.
Rong (n.) Rung (of a ladder).
Rongeur (n.) An instrument for removing small rough portions of bone.
Ronion (n.) Alt. of Ronyon.
Ronyon (n.) A mangy or scabby creature.
Ronne () obs. imp. pl.
Ronnen () obs. p. p. of Renne, to run.
Ront (n.) A runt.
Rood (n.) A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.
Rood (n.) A measure of five and a half yards in length; a rod; a perch; a pole.
Rood (n.) The fourth part of an acre, or forty square rods.
Roodebok (n.) The pallah.
Roody (a.) Rank in growth.
Roof (n.) The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.
Roof (n.) That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.
Roof (n.) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.
Roofed (imp. & p. p.) of Roof.
Roofing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Roof.
Roof (v. t.) To cover with a roof.
Roof (v. t.) To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.