Definitions
A loud warning device or a mythical figure whose song lures sailors.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“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. […]”
“My attention was diverted from this sight by a furious yelling, like that of the thing called a siren in our manufacturing towns.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Warning wail”5 letters
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