Romance vs Gallivant - What's the difference?
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An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.
A strong obsession or attachment for something or someone.
Love which is pure or beautiful.
A mysterious, exciting, or fascinating quality.
A story or novel dealing with idealised love.
An embellished account of something; an idealised lie.
An adventure, or series of extraordinary events, resembling those narrated in romances.
A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real.
(music) A romanza, or sentimental ballad.
Woo; court.
To write or tell romantic stories, poetry, letters, etc.
To roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.
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(obsolete) To flirt, to romance.
As verbs the difference between romance and gallivant
is that romance is woo; court while gallivant is to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.As a noun romance
is an intimate relationship between two people; a love affair.romance
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(wikipedia romance)Noun
(en noun)- His life was a romance .
- a girl full of romance
Antonyms
* platonic, platonic relationship, platonic loveQuotations
* (English Citations of "romance")Derived terms
* bromance * womanceVerb
Anagrams
* ----gallivant
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Alternative forms
* galavantVerb
(gallivant)citation, page= , passage=The episode also opens with an inspired bit of business for Homer, who blithely refuses to acquiesce to an elderly neighbor’s utterly reasonable request that he help make the process of selling her house easier by wearing pants when he gallivants about in front of windows, throw out his impressive collection of rotting Jack-O-Lanterns from previous Halloweens and take out his garbage, as it’s attracting wildlife (cue moose and Northern Exposure theme song).}}
- 1914' ''Bertram, it is true, when he heard of the plan, rebelled, and asserted that what Billy needed was a rest, an entire rest from care and labor. In fact, what he wanted her to do, he said, was to '''gallivant''' – to '''gallivant all day long.'' – Eleanor H.Porter ''Miss Billy – Married ,
Chapter 18.
