Crossword clues for fiance
fiance
- Intended to spread out around front of Italian church
- Intended to provide funding where one name absconds
- Intended fund to have name excised
- Intended one for Resistance in country round Paris
- He's bound to miss
- Ring bearer
- Prospective groom
- Person headed for the altar
- One choosing the aisle?
- Future husband
- Future groom
- Future bridegroom
- Bachelor weekend attendee
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fiance \Fi"ance\, v. t. [F. fiancer. See Affiance.]
To betroth; to affiance. [Obs.]
--Harmar.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"man to whom one is betrothed," 1864 (by 1826 as a French word in English), from French fiancé, past participle of fiancer "to betroth" (see fiancee). Borrowed earlier in Middle English as "confidence, trust; word of honor."
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of fiancé English) vb. (context obsolete English) To betroth; to affiance.
n. 1 A man who is engaged to be marry. 2 A person engaged to be married.
WordNet
n. a man who is engaged to be married [syn: groom-to-be]
Wikipedia
A fiancé is a man who is engaged to be married; a fiancée is a woman who is engaged to be married.
Fiancée, fiancé, or their uninflected forms may also refer to:
In film and television:
- The Fiancee (film), a 1980 East German film
- Fiancé: A Romantic Comedy, a 2002 film directed by Justin Powers
- My Fiance, a 2003 film directed by Frank Christoffersen
- Fiancee (TV series), a 2013 Chinese TV series
In music:
- "Fiance", a song by Cat Power from her 1996 album Myra Lee
- The Fiancée (album), a 2007 album from the Christian metalcore band The Chariot
- Fiancé (Ed Tullett album), a 2016 album by British musician Ed Tullett.
Usage examples of "fiance".
He made her feel like no one else ever had before, not even Jim Franklin, her fiance from seven years ago.
She had not mentioned that Shane Nolan had been a close friend of her former fiance, a man named Jim Franklin.
Vivid images from seven years ago leaped to mind--the body of her fiance sprawled on his living room floor, the gaping wound in his chest, the blood on the carpet.
None of the girls punish Libby, although they relish watching her lower her knickers and bend over when her fiance Paul canes her--a rare treat.
I regret that you may find the living a little rough until your fiancé reclaims you.
Why should she believe anything he said if it meant accepting that her fiancé was a black-hearted villain and murderer?
I murdered my fiancé and then had sex a few inches from his dead body.
I saw space between his feet and the floor, but when he spoke, the fact that my fiancé was defying the laws of gravity fell to second place in the creepy sweepstakes.
Would you mind very much if I abandoned you to the care of your charming fiancé for the rest of the evening?
And it is no secret that you have, shall we say, already allowed your fiancé a taste of the goods.
I should be engaged to John Crossman, because I think my fiancé hates me.
Though technically nice looking in a conservative, yuppie sort of way, her fiancé appeared serious and professorial with his six-foot-four lanky frame and wire-rimmed glasses.
She was going to say fiancé, but a bustle in the hallway heralded the arrival of her mother, Valerie, Amy and Ben.
And Jacqueline herself told her fiancé that she was afraid one of her brothers was trying to kill her.
From what her fiancé told me, this was the same place where Jacqueline Shaw meditated the day she died.