Synonyms of the word

romance

• n. A story relating to chivalry; a story involving knights, heroes, adventures, quests, etc.
• n. An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
• n. A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
• n. Idealized love which is pure or beautiful.
• n. A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
• n. A story or novel dealing with idealized love.
• n. An embellished account of something; an idealized lie.
• n. An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
• n. A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
• n. (music) A romanza, or sentimental ballad.
• v. Woo; court.
• v. (intransitive) To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

butterfly

• n. A flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from moths by their diurnal activity and generally…
• n. (now rare) Someone seen as being unserious and (originally) dressed gaudily; someone flighty and unreliable.
• n. The butterfly stroke.
• n. A use of surgical tape, cut into thin strips and placed across an open wound to hold it closed.
• v. (transitive) To cut (food) almost entirely in half and spread the halves apart, in a shape suggesting…
• v. (transitive) To cut strips of surgical tape or plasters into thin strips, and place across (a gaping wound)…

coquet

• n. A flirtatious female; a coquette.
• n. (obsolete) A flirtatious male.
• v. To act as a flirt or coquet.
• v. To waste time; to dally.
• v. To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard,…

coquette

• n. A woman who flirts or plays with men's affections.
• v. Alternative form of coquet.

court

• n. An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different…
• n. (social) Royal society.
• n. Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners;…
• n. (social) The administration of law.
• n. (sports) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and…
• v. (transitive) To seek to achieve or win.
• v. (transitive) To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
• v. (transitive) To try to win a commitment to marry from.
• v. (transitive) To engage in behavior leading to mating.
• v. (transitive) To attempt to attract.
• v. (transitive) To attempt to gain alliance with.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
• v. (intransitive) To engage in courtship behavior.
• v. (transitive) To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

dally

• v. To waste time in voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to trifle.
• v. To interchange caresses, especially of a sexual nature; to use fondling; to wanton; to sport (compare…
• v. To delay unnecessarily; to while away.
• v. To wind the lasso rope (ie throw-rope) around the saddle horn (the saddle horn is attached to the pommel…
• n. Several wraps of rope around the saddle horn, used to stop animals in roping.

flirt

• n. A sudden jerk; a quick throw or cast; a darting motion.
• n. One who flirts.
• n. An act of flirting.
• v. (transitive) To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling.
• v. (intransitive) To jeer at; to mock.
• v. (intransitive) To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions.
• v. (transitive) To blurt out.
• v. (intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in…
• v. (intransitive) To experiment, or tentatively engage, with; to become involved in passing with.
• adj. pert; wanton.

lie

• v. (intransitive) To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
• v. (intransitive) To be placed or situated.
• v. To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
• v. Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
• v. (archaic) To lodge; to sleep.
• v. To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
• v. (law) To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
• n. (golf) The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
• n. (medicine) The position of a fetus in the womb.
• v. (intransitive) To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To convey a false image or impression.
• n. An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
• n. A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth.
• n. Anything that misleads or disappoints.

love

• n. (uncountable) Strong affection.
• n. (countable) The object of one’s romantic feelings; a darling or sweetheart.
• n. (colloquial, Britain) A term of friendly address, regardless of feelings.
• n. (euphemistic) A sexual desire; sexual activity.
• n. Used as the closing, before the signature, of a letter, especially between good friends or family members,…
• n. (obsolete) A thin silk material.
• n. A climbing plant, Clematis vitalba.
• v. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To need, thrive on.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like.
• v. (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive) To care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To derive delight from a fact or situation.
• v. (transitive) To lust for.
• v. (transitive, euphemistic) To have sex with, (perhaps from make love.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise; commend.
• v. (transitive, obsolete or Britain dialectal) To praise as of value; prize; set a price on.
• n. (racquet sports) Zero, no score.

mash

• n. (obsolete) A mesh.
• n. (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass…
• n. In brewing, ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt…
• n. Mashed potatoes.
• n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
• n. (obsolete): A mess; trouble.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure.
• v. (transitive) In brewing, to convert, (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
• v. (transitive) To press down hard (on).
• v. (transitive, Southern US, informal) to press.
• v. (transitive, Britain) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew (used mainly in Northern…
• v. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
• n. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
• n. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher.
• n. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex).

move

• v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
• v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
• v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
• v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
• v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
• v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
• v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
• v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
• n. The act of moving; a movement.
• n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
• n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
• n. The event of changing one's residence.
• n. A change in strategy.
• n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
• n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

novel

• adj. new, original, especially in an interesting way.
• n. (obsolete) A novelty; something new.
• n. (now historical) A fable; a short tale, especially one of many making up a larger work.
• n. A work of prose fiction, longer than a short story.
• n. (classical studies, historical) A new legal constitution in ancient Rome.

philander

• n. A lover.
• n. A South American opossum, bare-tailed woolly opossum, Caluromys philander, formerly Didelphis philander.
• n. An Australian bandicoot, greater bilby or bilby, Macrotis lagotis, formerly Perameles lagotis.
• v. To make love to women; to play the male flirt.

quality

• n. (uncountable) Level of excellence.
• n. (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
• n. (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.).
• n. (uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed…
• n. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total…
• n. (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI…
• adj. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

relationship

• n. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
• n. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
• n. A romantic or sexual involvement.
• n. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other.
• n. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

romanticism

• n. A romantic quality, spirit or action.

solicit

• v. To persistently endeavor to obtain an object, or bring about an event.
• v. To woo; to court.
• v. To persuade or incite one to commit some act, especially illegal or sexual behavior.
• v. To offer to perform sexual activity, especially when for a payment.
• v. To make a petition.
• v. (archaic) To disturb or trouble; to harass.
• v. To urge the claims of; to plead; to act as solicitor for or with reference to.
• v. (obsolete, rare) To disturb; to disquiet.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

story

• n. A sequence of real or fictional events; or, an account of such a sequence.
• n. A lie, fiction.
• n. (US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.
• n. (obsolete) History.
• n. A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
• v. To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
• n. (obsolete) A building or edifice.
• n. (chiefly US) A floor or level of a building; a storey.
• n. (typography) Alternative form of storey.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

woo

• v. (transitive) To endeavor to gain someone's support.
• v. (transitive) (often of a man) To try to persuade someone to marry oneself; to solicit in love.
• v. To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
• interj. (slang) Expressing joy or mirth; woohoo, yahoo.
• adj. Alternative spelling of woo woo.