Usually means: Mythical creature luring sailors astray.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. siren: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Siren, siren: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Siren, siren: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. siren: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Siren, siren: Vocabulary.com
  6. Siren, siren: Wordnik
  7. siren: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Siren: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. siren: Wiktionary
  10. siren: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. siren: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. siren: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. siren: Dictionary.com
  14. siren: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. siren: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Siren: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. siren: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. siren: Rhymezone
  20. siren: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. siren: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. siren: Free Dictionary
  23. siren: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Siren: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Siren: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Siren (Greek mythology), Siren (mythology), siren: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. siren: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. SIREN: Acronym Finder
  3. siren: Wordcraft Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Siren: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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noun:  (Greek mythology) One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks.
noun:  One who sings sweetly and charms.
noun:  A dangerously seductive woman.
noun:  A member of Sirenia, an order of mammals.
noun:  A member of a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae, commonly used for all species in the family Sirenidae.
noun:  Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Hestina.
noun:  A device, either mechanical or electronic, that makes a piercingly loud sound as an alarm or signal, or the sound from such a device (first recorded 1879).
noun:  (music) A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra (patented as Acme Siren in 1895).
noun:  An instrument for demonstrating the laws of beats and combination tones.
noun:  (astronomy, astrophysics) An astrophysical event that can be used for calculating cosmic distances.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a noise with, or as if with, a siren.
verb:  (intransitive) To drive with a siren on.
adjective:  Relating to or like a siren.
noun:  A village, the county seat of Burnett County, Wisconsin, United States.
noun:  A town in Burnett County, Wisconsin, United States, surrounding the village of the same name.

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