romantic comedy

English

Noun

romantic comedy (countable and uncountable, plural romantic comedies)

1. (uncountable) A genre of fiction, especially film, that presents love stories in a humorous and light-hearted way.

   Synonyms: romcom, rom com, rom-com, romedy

   • 2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 December 2017:

     Judging from his new movie, the sublimely silly They Came Together, director and co-writer David Wain is a closet connoisseur of the modern romantic comedy.

2. (countable) Such a story.

Translations

love story in fiction or film

• Finnish: romanttinen komedia
• French: comédie romantique f, comédie sentimentale f, romcom f
• German: Liebeskomödie (de) f, romantische Komödie f
• Greek: ρομαντική κωμωδία f (romantikí komodía)
• Hungarian: romantikus vígjáték
• Irish: coiméide rómánsúil f
• Japanese: ラブコメディー (ja) (rabu komedī)
• Korean: 로맨틱 코미디 (romaentik komidi)
• Polish: komedia romantyczna f
• Swedish: romantisk komedi c