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ھԳé

or ھ··

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

noun

  1. a man engaged to be married.


ھԳé

/ ɪˈɒԲɪ /

noun

  1. a man who is engaged to be married
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Gender Note

See ھԳée.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ھԳé1

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 ī, Latin ī ) + -ance noun suffix; -ance, -ee
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ھԳé1

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

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As a child, Lucas had been thrilled by televised war footage until his older sister’s ھԳé died serving in Korea.

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After winning one and losing one of her BJK Cup singles matches last week on indoor clay in the Netherlands, Boulter went to Alicante - where her ھԳé Alex de Minaur has long been based - for a training week.

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Castellanos’ fiance told ABC7 that his partner suffers from “mental and emotional health issues” and that he believes she was triggered by “a deep depression after she found out she might not become a legal resident.”

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After the ’80s pop-funk of “Shadow of a Man,” for which she dressed as a sexy military officer, she appeared to spot her ھԳé, Michael Polansky and thanked the crowd “for bringing me my man.”

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Disqualified from being a director, he put his ھԳé – an eyebrow technician from Essex – down on the paperwork as the boss.

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Fiancé Vs. 󾱲Գé

’s the difference between ھԳéԻ ھԳée?

The word ھԳé is traditionally used to refer to the man that a person is engaged to be married to (the groom-to-be). 󾱲Գé is traditionally used to refer to the woman that a person is engaged to be married to (the bride-to-be).

However, the spelling ھԳé—with just one e—is sometimes used without reference to gender.

The two words are pronounced exactly the same. Their different endings are due to the fact that they derive from French, which has grammatical gender, meaning that some words end differently depending on whether they are applied to men or women (with e being the feminine ending). This happens in a few other pairs of words in English, like blond and blonde, though in many cases the term without the e has become largely gender-neutral. This is the case with both blond and ھԳé.

Similar to some other words derived from French (like éܳé), they are sometimes written without accents, as fiance and fiancee.

Want to learn more? Read the full breakdown of the difference between ھԳé and ھԳée.

Quiz yourself on ھԳée vs. ھԳé!

True or False? 

The spelling ھԳé can be used for any gender.

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