4. (Music, other) music a part of the action of a clavichord consisting of a small piece of metal that strikes the string to produce a note. 5. on a tangent at a tangent on a completely different or divergent course, esp of thought: to go off at a tangent.
Synonyms: clichÃ©, bromide, platitude, truism. These nouns denote an expression or idea that has lost its originality or force through overuse: a short story weakened by clichÃ©s; the bromide that we are what we eat; a eulogy full of platitudes; a once-original thought that is now a truism.
âº literature A romance is a âstory of âlove between two âpeople, often âcontaining âexciting âevents or âmagic: [C] He is the âsuccessful âauthor of ârollicking âhistorical romances. (Definition of romance from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press). See all translations.