1. siren - Noun
2. siren - Adjective
3. siren - Verb
4. Siren - Proper noun
One of three sea nymphs, -- or, according to some writers, of two, -- said to frequent an island near the coast of Italy, and to sing with such sweetness that they lured mariners to destruction.
An enticing, dangerous woman.
Something which is insidious or deceptive.
A mermaid.
Any long, slender amphibian of the genus Siren or family Sirenidae, destitute of hind legs and pelvis, and having permanent external gills as well as lungs. They inhabit the swamps, lagoons, and ditches of the Southern United States. The more common species (Siren lacertina) is dull lead-gray in color, and becames two feet long.
An instrument for producing musical tones and for ascertaining the number of sound waves or vibrations per second which produce a note of a given pitch. The sounds are produced by a perforated rotating disk or disks. A form with two disks operated by steam or highly compressed air is used sounding an alarm to vessels in fog.
Of or pertaining to a siren; bewitching, like a siren; fascinating; alluring; as, a siren song.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe Siren waits thee, singing song for song. Walter Savage Landor
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf. George Chapman
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren. Horace
The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little. Ray Bradbury
The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled. Ralph Ellison
I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Carl Sagan