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单词 fiancée
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Definition of fiancée in English:

fiancée

nounfɪˈɒnseɪfɪˈɒ̃seɪfɪˈɑːnseɪ
  • A woman to whom someone is engaged to be married.

    he went back to the valley to marry his fiancée
    Example sentencesExamples
    • These values are not intended for current boyfriends, fiancées, siblings, your parents or any children under 10.
    • A Warminster soldier has been killed while serving in Iraq just months before he was set to marry his fiancée.
    • For example, until recently there was some provision for black men to be joined by their fiancées but much tighter controls on women wanting to bring their fiancés into the UK.
    • Whether disgruntled fiancées fed up at playing the waiting game will draw parallels between their menfolk and the baboons, skunks and pigs remains uncertain.
    • Indeed, so determined was my mother that we should not marry, that she banned my fiancée from the family home in Worthing.
    • He lives in Dublin and will be travelling to Lebanon in December to marry Lina, his Lebanese fiancée.
    • ‘It is the story of all the women left behind during the First World War - the sisters, the fiancées and the bereaved,’ said Jeannie.
    • Over the past five years, 3,500 women from the Philippines alone have immigrated to Canada as fiancées or spouses of Canadian sponsors.
    • Seung-hun wanted to break his prior engagement with his fiancée to marry Hye-kyo.
    • One tale tells of how in the time of Emperor ‘Claudius the Cruel,’ marriage was forbidden as men were unwilling to go to war leaving their wives, families or fiancées.
    • In due course his younger brother married his fiancée and succeeded as George V.
    • ‘I've had two or three fiancées,’ he says, but no relationship has come close to the emotional commitment he's made to dance.
    • But that's politics-as soon as the writ is dropped, girlfriends become fiancées for the duration, to lend that air of maturity and permanence.
    • I imagine that in the big city, people are always intercepting their brothers' fiancées at the church door, but if you live in a small village, as I do, the prospect of this is hot stuff indeed.
    • Sadly, Ann didn't live long enough to see her son, Darren, and his fiancée Louise get married recently.
    • Anyway, I want to get off the subject of fiancées and weddings.
    • This summer Hunter married his fiancée Lyndsey in a ceremony on Jamaica and is now settling down to married life.
    • And he is clinging to the hope that his fiancée, who he planned to marry in the summer, returns home safe and well.
    • Ironically, most of the disappointed fiancées said that their beloved had spent over $300 on the proposal (not counting the ring.)
    • Edmund has now lost both of his fiancées and must submit to his own horrid fate.
    Synonyms
    betrothed, wife-to-be, husband-to-be, bride-to-be, future wife/husband, prospective wife/husband, prospective spouse
    informal, dated intended

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French (see fiancé).

Rhymes

fiancé
 
 

Definition of fiancée in US English:

fiancée

noun
  • A woman to whom someone is engaged to be married.

    he went back to the valley to marry his fiancée
    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘It is the story of all the women left behind during the First World War - the sisters, the fiancées and the bereaved,’ said Jeannie.
    • Ironically, most of the disappointed fiancées said that their beloved had spent over $300 on the proposal (not counting the ring.)
    • Seung-hun wanted to break his prior engagement with his fiancée to marry Hye-kyo.
    • And he is clinging to the hope that his fiancée, who he planned to marry in the summer, returns home safe and well.
    • One tale tells of how in the time of Emperor ‘Claudius the Cruel,’ marriage was forbidden as men were unwilling to go to war leaving their wives, families or fiancées.
    • He lives in Dublin and will be travelling to Lebanon in December to marry Lina, his Lebanese fiancée.
    • Edmund has now lost both of his fiancées and must submit to his own horrid fate.
    • For example, until recently there was some provision for black men to be joined by their fiancées but much tighter controls on women wanting to bring their fiancés into the UK.
    • But that's politics-as soon as the writ is dropped, girlfriends become fiancées for the duration, to lend that air of maturity and permanence.
    • In due course his younger brother married his fiancée and succeeded as George V.
    • I imagine that in the big city, people are always intercepting their brothers' fiancées at the church door, but if you live in a small village, as I do, the prospect of this is hot stuff indeed.
    • Whether disgruntled fiancées fed up at playing the waiting game will draw parallels between their menfolk and the baboons, skunks and pigs remains uncertain.
    • Over the past five years, 3,500 women from the Philippines alone have immigrated to Canada as fiancées or spouses of Canadian sponsors.
    • Anyway, I want to get off the subject of fiancées and weddings.
    • Sadly, Ann didn't live long enough to see her son, Darren, and his fiancée Louise get married recently.
    • ‘I've had two or three fiancées,’ he says, but no relationship has come close to the emotional commitment he's made to dance.
    • This summer Hunter married his fiancée Lyndsey in a ceremony on Jamaica and is now settling down to married life.
    • A Warminster soldier has been killed while serving in Iraq just months before he was set to marry his fiancée.
    • These values are not intended for current boyfriends, fiancées, siblings, your parents or any children under 10.
    • Indeed, so determined was my mother that we should not marry, that she banned my fiancée from the family home in Worthing.
    Synonyms
    betrothed, wife-to-be, bride-to-be, future wife, prospective wife, prospective spouse

Origin

Mid 19th century: from French (see fiancé).

 
 
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