fiancée
/fiˈɒ̃.seɪ/US/fiˈɑn.seɪ/
fiancée noun: a woman who is engaged to be married; the woman to whom one is engaged.
Noun
fiancée (plural fiancées)
- A woman who is engaged to be married; the woman to whom one is engaged.
- 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.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
fiancée meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
fiancée in Hindi
- woman who is engaged to be married
- मँगेतर maṅgetar, मंगेतर maṅgetar, वाग्दत्ता vāgdattā, दुलहिन dulhin, दुल्हन dulhan
fiancée in Urdu
- woman who is engaged to be married
- مَن٘گیتَر maṅgetar, دُلْہَن dulhan
fiancée in Bengali
- woman who is engaged to be married
- বাগ্দত্তা bagdotta
fiancée in Malayalam
- betrothed, wife-to-be, husband-to-be
- പ്രതിസുതവരൻ, പ്രതിസുതവധു, വിവാഹവാഗ്ദാനം ചെയ്തവൻ, വിവാഹവാഗ്ദാനം ചെയ്തവൾ, വിവാഹപ്രതിജ്ഞ കഴിഞ്ഞവൻ, വിവാഹപ്രതിജ്ഞ കഴിഞ്ഞവൾ
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- fiancée in Pashto
- چنغاله čenǧãla, چنغله čenǧalá, کوژدن koẑdǝn, کوېژده kweždá
- fiancée in Tagalog
- babaeng katikya, babaeng katipan
- fiancée in Arabic
- خَطِيبَة ḵaṭība
- fiancée in Malay
- tunang
- fiancée in Thai
- คู่หมั้น kûu-mân
- fiancée in Vietnamese
- vợ chưa cưới, vị hôn thê
- fiancée in Myanmar
- သတို့သမီး sa.tui.sa.mi:
Forms of fiancée
| plural | fiancées |
|---|---|
| alternative form | fiancee |
Origin of fiancée
Borrowed from French fiancée.
Words formed from fiancée
Questions about fiancée
- What does fiancée mean?
- Fiancée means a woman who is engaged to be married; the woman to whom one is engaged.
- What is fiancée in Hindi?
- Fiancée in Hindi is मँगेतर (maṅgetar), मंगेतर (maṅgetar), वाग्दत्ता (vāgdattā). See Fiancée meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fiancée?
- Fiancée is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fiancée?
- Fiancée is pronounced /fiˈɒ̃.seɪ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of fiancée?
- The plural of fiancée is fiancées.
Words near fiancée in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: fiancée (page history and authors); fiancée (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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.
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