Definitions for Siren

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Siren si·ren

Spelling: [sahy-ruh n]

IPA: /ˈsaɪ rən/

Siren is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in Siren (einrs).

Definitions for Siren

noun

1. Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
2. a seductively beautiful or charming woman, especially one who beguiles men:
3. an acoustical instrument for producing musical tones, consisting essentially of a disk pierced with holes arranged equidistantly in a circle, rotated over a jet or stream of compressed air, steam, or the like, so that the stream is alternately interrupted and allowed to pass.
4. an implement of this kind used as a whistle, fog signal, or warning device.
5. any of several aquatic, eellike salamanders of the family Sirenidae, having permanent external gills, small forelimbs, and no posterior limbs.

adjective

1. of or like a siren.
2. seductive or tempting, especially dangerously or harmfully:

verb (used with object)

1. to allure in the manner of a siren.

verb (used without object)

1. to go with the siren sounding, as a fire engine.

Origin of Siren

1300-50; Middle English sereyn Old French sereine Late Latin Sīrēna, Latin Sīrēn Greek Seirḗn

Examples for Siren

There he left the affair, nor ever spoke again of Malpas and the siren who presided there.

I spent most of the day inwardly bracing myself for the piercing shriek of a siren to break the silence of the city.

Marc Polder had faded back into the crowd at the first sound of the siren.

Yesterday, denizens of Tel Aviv scrambled for cover when a siren went off around midday.

Year after year, our children fall prey to the siren that is heroin.

Few of us are immune to the siren calls of awesome stuff (or just a better school district for the kids).

"I thank you, dearest dear," cooed the siren, caressing him tenderly.

That song would soon morph from the jaunty clip of the light rail to the siren sounds of jazz.

Within an hour the morning siren would arouse the passengers.

"Ah, you say you do, yet you refuse to do as I wish you," sorrowfully replied the siren.