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View synonyms for fiancé

fiancé

or fi·an·ce

[ fee-ahn-sey, fee-ahn-sey ]

noun

  1. a man engaged to be married.


fiancé

/ fɪˈɒnseɪ /

noun

  1. a man who is engaged to be married


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fiancé1

First recorded in 1850–55; from French: “betrothed,” past participle of fiancer, Old French fiancier, verbal derivative of fiance “a promise,” equivalent to fi(er) “to trust” (from unattested Vulgar Latin fīdāre, Latin fīdere ) + -ance noun suffix; -ance, -ee

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fiancé1

C19: from French, from Old French fiancier to promise, betroth, from fiance a vow, from fier to trust, from Latin fīdere

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Example Sentences

And this is all on top of a 2005 incident, where a former fiance sought a restraining order against him.

Dear Blogger: My fiance and I are roughly-30-year-old software developers.

I used to be into you and your fiance Blake Shelton's tweets, but neither of you have really been tweeting anymore.

Katie Finneran's emotional acceptance speech dedicated to her fiance.

He employed Corentin to clear up the dark side of the life of Clotilde's fiance.

But certainly I had not expected to see sitting on the page written in my fiance's hand, the face of another woman.

The father agrees with her; and he and her fiance, this gentleman here, have run away with her, to prevent her being locked up.

And then suppose after you came home you took your wife, or your mother, or your fiance, to see this play.

He merely returned home to bid his last farewell to his dying mother, and to intrust her to the care of his fiance.

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