romance
Spanish, noun
romance is spelled R-O-M-A-N-C-E (7 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Spanish, the 6,393rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Romance is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “romance, love affair” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of romanzar. With an accent, romancé is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of romanzar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Por antonomasia, la lengua romance₁ de España”.
What does romance mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineRomance
noun
- 1
masculineromance, love affair
- 2
masculineromance (genre)
- 3
masculinenovel
noun
- 1
masculineSpanish (language)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of romanzar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Se dice de las lenguas que se desarrollaron durante la Edad Media a partir del latín hablado en varias zonas que fueron parte del imperio romano, como las actuales España, Francia, Italia, Portugal y Rumania.
noun: 1. Por antonomasia, la lengua romance₁ de España. 2. Composición en verso de origen español, habitualmente de tema épico o lírico, con rima asonante idéntica en los versos pares y sin rima en los impares. 3. En particular, romance₃ en versos octosílabos. 4. Narrativa heroica de tema caballeresco que idealizaba aspectos de la vida medieval tales como el heroísmo, la lealtad y el amor entre un caballero y su dama.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of romance
- romances feminine masculine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to romance
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is romance in Spanish?
romance appears 11 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).