- Affair of the heart - Drama with a tender theme - Love affair - Love story - Work of literature about love - A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in
meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the
tales of the court of Arthur, and of Amadis of Gaul; hence, any
fictitious and wonderful tale; a sort of novel, especially one which
treats of surprising adventures usually befalling a hero or a heroine;
a tale of extravagant adventures, of love, and the like. - An adventure, or series of extraordinary events,
resembling those narrated in romances; as, his courtship, or his life,
was a romance.