Meanings
nounfiancée (plural fiancées)
plural fiancées · alternative fiancee
- formalA 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
Origin
- Frenchfiancé
- Frenchfiancée
- Englishfiancée
Borrowed from French fiancée.
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Arabic خَطِيبَة
- خَطِيبَة (ḵaṭība)woman who is engaged to be married
Basque emaztegai, andregai
- emaztegaiwoman who is engaged to be married
- andregaiwoman who is engaged to be married
Bengali বাগ্দত্তা
- বাগ্দত্তা (bagdotta)woman who is engaged to be married
Bulgarian годени́ца
- годени́ца (godeníca)woman who is engaged to be married
Chinese Cantonese 未婚妻
- 未婚妻 (mei⁶ fan¹ cai¹)woman who is engaged to be married
Chinese Mandarin 未婚妻
- 未婚妻 (wèihūnqī)woman who is engaged to be married
Czech snoubenka
- snoubenkawoman who is engaged to be married
Danish forlovet, kæreste
- forlovetwoman who is engaged to be married
- kærestewoman who is engaged to be married
Dutch verloofde
- verloofdewoman who is engaged to be married
Esperanto fianĉino
- fianĉinowoman who is engaged to be married
Estonian mõrsja
- mõrsjawoman who is engaged to be married
Finnish morsian
- morsianwoman who is engaged to be married
French fiancée
- fiancéewoman who is engaged to be married
German Verlobte, Braut
- Verlobtewoman who is engaged to be married
- Brautwoman who is engaged to be married
Greek αρραβωνιαστικιά
- αρραβωνιαστικιά (arravoniastikiá)woman who is engaged to be married
Hebrew אֲרוּסָה
- אֲרוּסָה (arusa)woman who is engaged to be married
Hindi मँगेतर, मंगेतर
- मँगेतर (maṅgetar)woman who is engaged to be married
- मंगेतर (maṅgetar)woman who is engaged to be married
- वाग्दत्ता (vāgdattā)woman who is engaged to be married
- दुलहिन (dulhin)woman who is engaged to be married
- दुल्हन (dulhan)woman who is engaged to be married
Hungarian menyasszony, ara
- menyasszonywoman who is engaged to be married
- arawoman who is engaged to be married
- mátkawoman who is engaged to be married
Icelandic unnusta
- unnustawoman who is engaged to be married
Italian fidanzata
- fidanzatawoman who is engaged to be married
Japanese 婚約者, フィアンセ
- 婚約者 (kon'yakusha)woman who is engaged to be married
- フィアンセ (fianse)woman who is engaged to be married
Korean 약혼녀
- 약혼녀 (yakhonnyeo)woman who is engaged to be married
Latin sponsa
- sponsawoman who is engaged to be married
Latvian līgava
- līgavawoman who is engaged to be married
Lithuanian sužadėtinė
- sužadėtinėwoman who is engaged to be married
Malay tunang
- tunangwoman who is engaged to be married
Māori whaiāipo
- whaiāipowoman who is engaged to be married
Norwegian Bokmål forlovede
- forlovedewoman who is engaged to be married
Polish narzeczona
- narzeczonawoman who is engaged to be married
Portuguese noiva
- noivawoman who is engaged to be married
Romanian logodnică
- logodnicăwoman who is engaged to be married
Russian неве́ста, наречённая
- неве́ста (nevésta)woman who is engaged to be married
- наречённая (narečónnaja)woman who is engaged to be married
Slovak snúbenica
- snúbenicawoman who is engaged to be married
Spanish novia, prometida
- noviawoman who is engaged to be married
- prometidawoman who is engaged to be married
Swahili mchumba
- mchumbawoman who is engaged to be married
Swedish fästmö
- fästmöwoman who is engaged to be married
Tagalog babaeng katikya, babaeng katipan
- babaeng katikyawoman who is engaged to be married
- babaeng katipanwoman who is engaged to be married
Thai คู่หมั้น
- คู่หมั้น (kûu-mân)woman who is engaged to be married
Turkish nişanlı
- nişanlıwoman who is engaged to be married
Ukrainian наре́чена
- наре́чена (naréčena)woman who is engaged to be married
Urdu مَن٘گیتَر, دُلْہَن
- مَن٘گیتَر (maṅgetar)woman who is engaged to be married
- دُلْہَن (dulhan)woman who is engaged to be married
Vietnamese vợ chưa cưới, vị hôn thê
- vợ chưa cướiwoman who is engaged to be married
- vị hôn thêwoman who is engaged to be married
Welsh dyweddi, darpar wraig
- dyweddiwoman who is engaged to be married
- darpar wraigwoman who is engaged to be married
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