romeo
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 5
/ˈɹoʊmioʊ/
Definition of romeo
11 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
name
- A male given name from the Romance languages.
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name
- A male given name from the Romance languages.
- One of the main characters of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: the ardent lover of Juliet.
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noun
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(colloquial)A boyfriend.
“Have you met her latest Romeo yet?”
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A man who has a reputation for being a great lover or very romantic.
“Indian Romeos […] have yielded to the temptation to pat, feel, pinch and brush against the more irresistible and accessible portions of women who come within discreet cop-a-feel distance.”
“So you think you're a Romeo / You're playing a part in a picture-show / Well, take the long way home”
- A spy specialised in seducing persons of interest, in particular a man targeting women.
- (derogatory)A womanizer.
- (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of Romeo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Romeo, from Ancient Greek Ῥωμαῖος (Rhōmaîos, “Roman”).
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