siren

Meaning

Noun

1. (Greek) One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks.
2. One who sings sweetly and charms.
3. A dangerously seductive woman.
4. A member of Sirenia, an order of mammals.
5. A member of a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae, commonly used for all species in the family Sirenidae.
6. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Hestina.
7. A device, either mechanical or electronic, that makes a piercingly loud sound as an alarm or signal, or the sound from such a device.
8. A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra (patented as Acme Siren in 1895).
9. An instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones.
10. An astrophysical event that can be used for calculating cosmic distances.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To make a noise with, or as if with, a siren.
2. (intransitive) To drive with a siren on.

Adj

Relating to or like a siren.

Synonyms

whistle

horn

mermaid

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temptress

enchantress

alarm

hooter

Delilah

femme fatale

vamp

beauty

courtesan

prostitute

signal

fairy

🧚

fife

genie

🧞

hoot

lilac

manatee

man-eater

monster

pipe

seductive

seductress

specter

straw

tempting

tocsin

trumpet

🎺

vixen

warner

Lorelei

alertor

syren

Siren

pennywhistle

syrem

alarm bell

alarm system

alluring

apparition

banshee

bombshell

buzzer

conch

coquette

demon

devil

dugong

Translations

sirène

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Sirene

sirena

sirena

sirene

sirena

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sirena

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sereia

🧜‍♀️

sirene

σειρήνα

donna fatale

femme fatale

tentatrice

Alarmanlage

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsaɪəɹən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: siren

In summary

From Middle English siren, from Old French sereine and Latin Sīrēn, Sīrēna, from Ancient Greek Σειρήν (Seirḗn). The mammalian sense was first attested in French in Dominique Bouhours, Les entretiens d'Ariste et d'Eugène, in 1671. The aquatic salamander sense was originally introduced by Linnaeus in 1766, for a genus of his reptiles.

Sentences

In retrospect , everything was already decided when we heard the siren .