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

Gender Note

See fiancée.

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

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

Example Sentences

Above it is a note written by one of them, a former hostage, to the other, her fiancé still in captivity: “I will wait for you, I love you more.”

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Kelly's fiance, Sid Wilson, and their son, Sidney, were also there to see the pumpkins.

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The woman, a Bay Area technology worker who has lived in the U.S. since 2021, had traveled to Pune, a city about three hours from Mumbai, days earlier to attend a funeral for her fiancé’s father.

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Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” is 41 minutes long, packed with sunny dreams about the future, praise for her fiancé, Travis Kelce, and a few flashes of the singer who can’t stay away from a fight.

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But the production, which combines synth stabs and funk guitar like a fusion of the Jackson 5 and Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe,” has a strutting sense of propulsion utterly absent elsewhere on the record, and Ms. Swift sings her ode to her fiancé’s anatomy with genuine joy.

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Related Words

• affianced 
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• betrothed 
• engaged person www.thesaurus.com
• future mate www.thesaurus.com
• groom-to-be www.thesaurus.com
• husband-to-be www.thesaurus.com
• intended 
• prospective spouse www.thesaurus.com