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Seductive vs Hiren - What's the difference?

seductive | hiren |

As an adjective seductive

is attractive, alluring, tempting.

As a noun hiren is

(rare) a seductive woman; a courtesan.

seductive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Attractive, alluring, tempting.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.

    Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "seductive" is often applied: woman, lady, girl, power, art, image, behavior, smile, dress, dance, tango, song, etc.

    Related terms

    * seductress * seducement * seduce * seduction

    hiren

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) A seductive woman; a courtesan.
  • * 1600 , William Shakespeare, King Henry IV Part 2 , II.4:
    • Pistol.'' Haue we not Hiren here? / ''Host. On my word Captaine there's none such here.
  • * 1615 , Thomas Adams, Sprituall Navigator :
    • What a number of these Sirens, Hirens , Cockatrices, Courtezans, in plaine English, Harlots, swimme amongst vs!
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor (Penguin 2011), page 275:
    • I summoned all the twenty hirens of the house (including the sweet-lipped, glossy chinned darling) into my resurrected presence.