Sired vs Siren - What's the difference?
sired | siren |
(sire)
A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.
(obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
* Shelley
Of a male: to procreate; to father, beget.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 6:
(original sense ) (Greek mythology) One of a group of nymphs who lured mariners to their death on the rocks.
A device, either mechanical or electronic, that makes a piercingly loud sound as an alarm or signal, or the sound from such a device.
A musical instrument, one of the few aerophones in the percussion section of the symphony orchestra.
A dangerously seductive woman.
A common name for salamanders of Siren and Sirenidae.
A common name for mammals of Sirenia .
Relating to or like a siren.
As a verb sired
is (sire).sired
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Noun
(en noun)- And raise his issue, like a loving sire .
- [He] was the sire of an immortal strain.
Verb
(sir)- In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.
