Definitions for sirens

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sirens si·ren

Spelling: [sahy-ruh n]

IPA: /ˈsaɪ rən/

Sirens is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in sirens (einrss).

Definitions for sirens

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 sirens

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

Examples for sirens

Then the first sirens of that long day sounded in the distance.

sirens: sea-nymphs who enticed sailors into their power by their singing, and then devoured them.

Had the sirens only to utter this one incantation, and was every listener constrained to stay?

As shadows fall and flesh goads, we all but hear the frenzied rutting amid the sirens.

It is execrable stuff—the milk of sirens mingled with sea-water.

At the time, sirens were not yet standard in tornado country.

Such were the sirens who would have compassed the destruction of Odysseus.

Still more keys engage an array of other sounds, from snare drums and cymbals to awooga horns and sirens.

The FDR Drive was closed to all traffic except emergency vehicles, and we drove down it with lights and sirens flashing.

Even the sirens, like all the rest of the world, have been laid under his spells.