sirensong

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A form of siren song — An enticing but dangerous appeal, especially a misleading one.

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Meanings

nounsirensong (countable and uncountable, plural sirensongs)

plural sirensongs

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of siren song.

    and admitted ruefully that the same bewitching sirensong had also lured him in the past

    2007, Heath Lees, Mallarmé and Wagner: music and poetic language, page 110
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    As we have seen, Stephen identifies with the poet-hero, and Fergus's call becomes a sirensong for his mother.

    1974, Zack R. Bowe, Musical allusions in the works of James Joyce, page 296

    the mast to which Odysseus is securely fastened in order to resist the seductions of sirensong

    1999, David C. Jacobs, The presocratics after Heidegger, page 102

Origin

From siren + song.

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APA

sirensong. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sirensong

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“sirensong.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sirensong. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sirensong,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sirensong.

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