Word.ws English Dictionary

femmes fatales

femmes fatales is the plural of femme fatale.

Meaning of femme fatale

Noun

femme fatale (plural femmes fatales or femme fatales)

  1. An attractive and seductive but ultimately dangerous woman.
    • Cause everybody knows (She's a femme fatale) / The things she does to please (She's a femme fatale)1967, Lou Reed, “Femme Fatale”, in The Velvet Underground & Nico, performed by The Velvet Underground
    Antonyms:
    ingenue

Questions about femmes fatales

What is femmes fatales the plural of?
Femmes fatales is the plural of femme fatale.

Words near femmes fatales in the dictionary

  1. femmeness
  2. femmephobia
  3. femmephobic
  4. femmer
  5. femmes
  6. femmes fatales
  7. femmes incomprises
  8. femmeslash
  9. femmie
  10. femmies
  11. femming

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: femmes fatales (page history and authors); femme fatale (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “femmes fatales.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/femmes_fatales. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.