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adj
Of or having the characteristics of adventure, romance, and intrigue, as in works of romantic fiction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Used to describe a fictitious and generic foreign government or person, used to state a general or hypothetical situation.
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noun
A person from the fictional land of Ruritania.
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adjective
of or pertaining to or characteristic of Ruritania (or any other imaginary country)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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noun
an imaginary inhabitant of Ruritania
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Broader terms: fictional character, fictitious character, character
History
From Ruritania + -an, after the fictional kingdom used as the setting for stories by Anthony Hope (1863–1933).
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
