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- Dictionaryfiancé/fɪˈɒnseɪ/
noun
- 1. a man to whom someone is engaged to be married: "my fiancé and I were childhood sweethearts"
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FIANCÉ definition: 1. the man who someone is engaged to be married to: 2. the man who someone is engaged to be…. Learn more.
: a man engaged to be married. Did you know? Promises, Promises: The History of Affidavit, Affiance, & Fiancé. Affidavit refers to a written promise, and its Latin roots connect it to another kind of promise in English.
The word fiancé is traditionally used to refer to the man that a person is engaged to be married to (the groom-to-be). Fiancée is traditionally used to refer to the woman that a person is engaged to be married to (the bride-to-be).
a man who is engaged to be married. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C19: from French, from Old French fiancier to promise, betroth, from fiance a vow, from fier to trust, from Latin fīdere.
Definition of fiancé noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Fiancé comes from French; in fact, it is so French that it even has masculine and feminine versions (like many nouns in French). If you're talking about a woman, you would call her a fiancée rather than a fiancé, which is used only to refer to men.
noun. A person to whom one is engaged to be married: betrothed, fiancée. Informal: intended.
