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fiancee

fiancee

1 2.0
A woman who is engaged to be married
  • noun
  • /fiˈɑnˌseɪ/
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  • This is my fiancee, Anna, and we are planning our wedding for next summer.

They are your spouses or partners or fiancees.

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Examples

  • Ben is very nervous because his mother is in town to meet her son's Japanese fiancee, Taruko.

  • I'd like to introduce you to my fiancee.

  • If it's not too much trouble, can you please bring my fiancee home with you?

  • I got a little letter from his fiancee.

  • Martin, this is my fiancee Marie.

  • But I think the issue was his fiancee didn't want the children living with her at their house with their other kids.

  • This is Harry Berman and his fiancee, Judith Browns.

  • That's my fiancee, Olive.

  • For instance, even though you've never introduced us, I know that your fiancee works in Student Services over at Mesa University as a psychiatrist, I believe.

  • I would like to introduce you to my fiancee, who has been my partner for five years.

Synonyms

bride-to-be
vsfiancee
24 2.8

A woman who is engaged to be married

is a single-word term naming a woman engaged to marry
betrothed
vsfiancee
  • Archaic
7 7.8

A person you are engaged to marry

is specific to a woman rather than any gendered partner
intended
vsfiancee
  • Archaic
6.5

Engaged to be married

is a noun that names the woman engaged to marry

How Close

bride
541 1.0
bachelorette
  • US
35 3.8
fiancee
1 2.0
boyfriend
1.0
single
96 1.8

Surface Forms

fiancee singular
fiancees plural

Etymology

Fiancee comes from French and from a root that means 'to trust', and you can see the same root in the English word confidence. So a Fiancee is someone you have promised to marry and who you trust, which is why the word means 'a woman who is engaged to be married'.