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See also:Siren,Sirén,sìrén,sīrén,sǐrén,širen,andšířen

English

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John William Waterhouse,The Siren,c. 1900

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsiren, fromOld Frenchsereine andLatinSīrēn,Sīrēna, fromAncient GreekΣειρήν(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 hisreptiles.Doublet ofserin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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siren (pluralsirensorsirenes)

  1. (Greekmythology) One of a group ofnymphs wholuredmariners to their death on the rocks.
    • 2008 October 7, Homer,The Odyssey‎[1], North Atlantic Books,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OCLC, page278:
      Now give ear to what I'm about to say to you , and a god himself will bring it before your mind . First , you will come to the Sirens . These beings enthrall all men who arrive before them . Whoever draws near without knowledge and ...
  2. One who sings sweetly and charms.
  3. Adangerouslyseductive woman.
  4. A member ofSirenia, anorder ofmammals.
  5. A member of a genus ofaquaticsalamanders of the familySirenidae, commonly used for all species in the family Sirenidae.
  6. Any of variousnymphalid butterflies of the genusHestina.
  7. Adevice, eithermechanical orelectronic, that makes apiercinglyloudsound as analarm orsignal, or thesound from such a device (first recorded 1879).
    • 1898,H.G. Wells,The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page103:
      My attention was diverted from this sight by a furious yelling, like that of the thing called asiren in our manufacturing towns.
    • 1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden,Powerslave.
      There goes thesiren that warns of the air raid / Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak / Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne / Got to get up for the coming attack.
  8. (music) Amusical instrument, one of the fewaerophones in thepercussion section of thesymphony orchestra (patented asAcme Siren in 1895).
  9. An instrument for demonstrating the laws ofbeats andcombination tones.
  10. (astronomy, astrophysics) An astrophysical event that can be used for calculating cosmic distances.
    • 2017, B.P. Abbott, “A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[2]:

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Translations

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nymph of Greek mythology
device for making a sound alarm
musical instrument
dangerously seductive woman
salamander
mammal

Verb

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siren (third-person singular simple presentsirens,present participlesirening,simple past and past participlesirened)

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

Adjective

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siren

  1. Relating to or like a siren.
    Synonyms:bewitching,enchanting,enticing,sirenic

References

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  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

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Serbo-Croatian

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Participle

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sìren (Cyrillic spellingсѝрен)

  1. masculinesingularpassivepastparticiple ofsiriti

Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinSīrēn, fromAncient GreekΣειρήν(Seirḗn).

Noun

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siren c

  1. (Greekmythology)siren
  2. siren,alarm,klaxon

Declension

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Declension ofsiren
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitesirensirens
definitesirenensirenens
pluralindefinitesirenersireners
definitesirenernasirenernas

Derived terms

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References

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Turkish

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Etymology

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FromFrenchsirène.

Noun

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siren (definite accusativesireni,pluralsirenler)

  1. siren

Welsh

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Noun

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siren f (not mutable)

  1. Alternative form ofseiren

Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “siren”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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