Romance (from Vulgar Latin , "in the Roman language", i.e., "Latin") may refer to:

Common meanings

* Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings * Romance languages, a subgroup of the Italic languages ** Romance studies, an academic discipline studying the languages, literatures, and cultures of areas that speak a Romance language

Places

* Romance, Arkansas, U.S. * Romance, Missouri, U.S. * Romance, West Virginia U.S. * Romance, Wisconsin, U.S.

Arts, entertainment, and media

Film

* Romance film, a genre of film of which the central plot focuses on the romantic relationships of the protagonists ** Romantic comedy ** Romantic thriller * Romance (1920 film), ''Romance'' (1920 film), silent film, directed by Chester Withey * Romance (1930 film), ''Romance'' (1930 film), starring Greta Garbo * Romance (1936 film), ''Romance'' (1936 film), an Austrian film starring Carl Esmond * Romance (1983 film), ''Romance'' (1983 film), a Bollywood film produced and directed by Ramanand Sagar * Romance (1986 film), ''Romance'' (1986 film) * Romance (1999 film), ''Romance'' (1999 film), directed by Catherine Breillat * Romance (2011 film), ''Romance'' (2011 film) * Romance (2013 film), ''Romance'' (2013 film)

Literature

Literary genres

* Adventure tales ** Gaslight romance, another name for gaslamp fantasy, featuring fantasy set at a time of approximately 19th-century technology ** Planetary romance, a genre of science fiction consisting of adventure tales on exotic planets ** Ruritanian romance, a genre of swashbuckling adventure novels, set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe ** Scientific romance, an archaic term for the genre of fiction now commonly known as science fiction * Chivalric romance literature, a branch of medieval and medievalist literature * Literature of Romanticism#Literature, Romanticism, a movement from the late 18th century that broke away from neoclassicism and which emphasized nature, the imagination and emotions * Hellenistic romance, or Ancient Greek romance, a modern term for the genre of the five surviving Ancient Greek novels * Romance (prose fiction), a type of novel, especially, but not necessarily, an historical novel, and distinct from genre fiction love romances * Romance literature (disambiguation) * Romance novel, a genre of novel which emerged in the 20th century, directed at women readers, that focuses on romantic love, with many sub-genres: ** Amish romance, also known as "bonnet rippers" ** Contemporary romance ** Historical romance, a 20th-century genre fiction version of the historical novel ** Paranormal romance ** Regency romance ** Fantasy romance

Works

* Romance (novel), ''Romance'' (novel), a 1905 novel by Joseph Conrad * Romance (play), ''Romance'' (play), a 2005 play by David Mamet * Romance (poem), "Romance" (poem), an 1829 poem by Edgar Allan Poe * Romance (Sheldon play), ''Romance'' (Sheldon play), a 1913 play by Edward Sheldon * Shakespeare's late romances, or tragicomedies

Music

Albums

* Romance (Camila Cabello album), ''Romance'' (Camila Cabello album), 2019 * Romance (David Cassidy album), ''Romance'' (David Cassidy album), 1985 * Romance (Luis Miguel album), ''Romance'' (Luis Miguel album), 1991 * Romance (Ali Project album), ''Romance'' (Ali Project album), 2006 * Romance (Dave Palmer album), ''Romance'' (Dave Palmer album), 2006 * Romance (Frank Sinatra album), ''Romance'' (Frank Sinatra album), 2004 * Romance (Tubelord album), ''Romance'' (Tubelord album), 2011 * Romances (Kaada/Patton album), ''Romances'' (Kaada/Patton album), 2004 * Romances (Luis Miguel album), ''Romances'' (Luis Miguel album), 1997 * Romance (Dorso album), ''Romance'' (Dorso album), 1991 * Romance (Oneida album), ''Romance'' (Oneida album), 2018

Songs

* Romance (guitar piece), "Romance" (guitar piece), also known as "Romance Anónimo", a Spanish instrumental guitar piece of anonymous origin * "Romance", by Claude Debussy * "Romance", by Gordon Lightfoot from his 1983 album ''Salute (Gordon Lightfoot album), Salute'' * "Romance", by Mike Oldfield from his album ''Light + Shade'' * "Romance", the second movement of the suite ''Lieutenant Kijé (Prokofiev), Lieutenant Kijé'' (Op. 60) by Sergei Prokofiev * "Romance", by R.E.M., originally released on the soundtrack of the 1987 film ''Made in Heaven (1987 film), Made in Heaven'' * "Romance", from the musical ''The Desert Song'' * ''Romance'' in C major, Op. 48, for violin and orchestra by Camille Saint-Saëns * Violin Romance No. 1 (Beethoven) in G major, Op. 40 * Violin Romance No. 2 (Beethoven) in F major, Op. 50 * "Romance" by Marc Ribot from his 1994 album ''Shrek (album), Shrek'' * Romance (Buck-Tick song), "Romance" (Buck-Tick song), 2005 single by Buck-Tick * Romance (Yoasobi song), "Romance" (Yoasobi song), 2021 single by Yoasobi

Other uses in music

* Romance (music), a type of ballad or lyrical song ** Romance (meter), a metric pattern found in Spanish ballads ** Romancero, the corpus of such Spanish ballads, or a collection of them ** Russian romance or Russian Gypsy song, a type of sentimental art song with hints of Gypsy influence that was developed in Imperial Russia ** Scandinavian romanser, classical art songs, equivalent to the German Lied * Romance (band), rock band from London * Romance Tour (disambiguation)

Television

* Romance (American TV series), ''Romance'' (American TV series), 1949 American anthology series * Romance (South Korean TV series), ''Romance'' (South Korean TV series), 2002 South Korean television drama series