fiancée

• fiancee

Borrowed from French fiancée.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fiˈɒ̃seɪ/, /fiˈɒnseɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fiˈɑnseɪ/, /ˌfiɑnˈseɪ/

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• Homophone: fiancé

fiancée (plural fiancées)

1. (formal, somewhat dated) A woman who is engaged to be married; the woman to whom one is engaged.
   • 1980 July, Zhang Haipeng, “An English Fighter in a Chinese Peasant War”, in China Reconstructs, volume XXIX, number 7, Peking, →OCLC, page 30, column 3:

     Toward the end of 1860, as told in his book, Lindley, together with his Portuguese fiancée Marie, a British friend he called “L.”, and a Greek friend B. Philip, joined the Taiping Army at Tianjing (Nanjing) — the capital of the Taiping Kingdom.

• Traditionally, the spelling fiancée is used for a woman who is engaged, with fiancé being the male counterpart. (This is a reflection of the corresponding distinction in French.) However, this distinction is not reliably followed today.

• fiancé

• engage
• marriage

• faience

From fiancé +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /fjɑ̃.se/, /fi.jɑ̃.se/

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• Homophone: fiancé

fiancée f sg

1. feminine singular of fiancé

fiancée f (plural fiancées)

1. female equivalent of fiancé (“fiancé”): a fiancée
2. a large yellow underwing

• → English: fiancée
• → Japanese: フィアンセ (fianse)

• caféine, faïence