romanesque
French, noun/ʁɔ.ma.nɛsk/
romanesque is spelled R-O-M-A-N-E-S-Q-U-E (10 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written French, the 20,080th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Romanesque is a French masculine noun meaning “fiction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ce qui est romanesque”.
What does romanesque mean in English?
adjective
- 1
novelistic; having qualities that pertain to a novel; romantic in the sense of the romanticism attributed to novels.
noun
- 1
masculinefiction
- 2
masculineglamour, excitement, romance
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui tient du roman ; qui est merveilleux comme les aventures de roman, ou exalté comme les personnages de roman, comme les sentiments qu’on leur prête.
noun: 1. Ce qui est romanesque.
noun: 1. Danse ancienne ; musique de cette danse.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of romanesque
- romanesques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce romanesque?
- /ʁɔ.ma.nɛsk/
- \ʁɔ.ma.nɛsk\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to romanesque
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is romanesque in French?
romanesque appears 2.1 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).