ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Romancer

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Romancer is a noun meaning One who romances another; one who attempt to win another's affections via romance.

Meaning

One who romances another; one who attempt to win another's affections via romance.

More Meanings

  1. (entertainment industry) A romantic film or television show.
  2. (dated) A person who writes romance or adventure stories, especially stories relating to chivalry, knights, heroes, quests, etc.

Example Sentences

Once I used to believe I was such a great romancer / then I came home to a woman that I did not recognize.
That’s a good reminder of how they won the referendum: these cavalier romancers trounced the roundhead number-cruncher remainers. Surely the country wouldn’t be fooled by the same trick twice.
[W]hat was once taught by sages, and believed by monarchs, has shared the fate of everything human and has sunk from its pristine rank to become the material and the machinery of poets and romancers.
Barbara Cartland scratched out this trusty 19th-century romancer concerning the scrumptious Serena Staverly (Diana Rigg), who has the dreadful misfortune to be lost in a game of cards to the flint-hearted Lord Justin.

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Related dictionary entries include erector, raconteur, romanticizer, admirer, courter, suitor.

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