romancer
pronunciation
How to pronounce romancer in British English:
UK [rəʊ'mænsə]
How to pronounce romancer in American English:
US [roʊ'mænsə]
Word Origin
- romancer (n.)
- mid-14c., "chronicler writing in French," from Old French romanceour, from romanz (see romance (n.)). Later, "one inclined to romantic imagination" (the main sense 19c.); modern use for "seducer, wooer" of a romantic quality appears to be a new formation c. 1967 from romance (v.).
Example
- 1. As a romancer of the elderly .
- 2. " I am the romancer , the passion that consumes the flesh ! "
- 3. She must look at everything from its dollar-and-cent point of view , or she is a mere romancer .
- 4. There are some mischievous and prosaic people who carp and calculate at every detail of the romancer .