"femme fatale" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /fɛm fəˈtæl/ [General-American], /fɛm fəˈtɑːl/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-us-femme fatale.ogg , en-uk-femme fatale.ogg Forms: femmes fatales [plural], femme fatales [plural]
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French femme fatale (literally “deadly woman”). Etymology templates: {{ubor|en|fr|femme fatale|lit=deadly woman}} Unadapted borrowing from French femme fatale (literally “deadly woman”) Head templates: {{en-noun|femmes fatales|s|nolinkhead=1}} femme fatale (plural femmes fatales or femme fatales)
  1. An attractive and seductive but ultimately dangerous woman. Categories (topical): Female people, Narratology, Stock characters Synonyms: vamp Derived forms: femme fatale firefly, femme fatale lightning bug Related terms: succubus Translations (seductive and dangerous woman): طَاغِيَة جَمَال (alt: ṭāḡiya(t) jamāl) [feminine] (Arabic), 蛇蠍美人 (Chinese Mandarin), 蛇蝎美人 (shéxiē měirén) (Chinese Mandarin), 妖姬 (yāojī) (Chinese Mandarin), 妖女 (yāonǚ) (Chinese Mandarin), 女妖精 (nǚyāojing) (Chinese Mandarin), 紅顏禍水 (Chinese Mandarin), 红颜祸水 (hóngyán huòshuǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), femme fatale [common-gender] (Danish), fatala virino (Esperanto), viettelijätär (Finnish), femme fatale [feminine] (French), Femme fatale [feminine] (German), verhängnisvolle Frau [feminine] (German), φαμ φατάλ (fam fatál) [feminine] (Greek), végzet asszonya (Hungarian), femme fatale (Indonesian), femme fatale [feminine] (Italian), donna fatale [feminine] (Italian), ファム・ファタール (famu fatāru) (Japanese), 妖女 (yōjo) (alt: ようじょ) (Japanese), 妖婦 (yōfu) (alt: ようふ) (Japanese), 傾城傾国 (keisei keikoku) (alt: けいせいけいこく) (Japanese), 팜 파탈 (pam patal) (Korean), 요부 (yobu) (alt: 妖婦) (Korean), femme fatale [feminine] (Polish), kobieta fatalna [feminine] (Polish), femme fatale [feminine] (Portuguese), рокова́я же́нщина (rokovája žénščina) [feminine] (Russian), фам-фата́ль (fam-fatálʹ) [feminine] (Russian), bean bhàsail [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), mujer fatal [feminine] (Spanish), femme fatale [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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      "roman": "nǚyāojing",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "word": "女妖精"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "word": "紅顏禍水"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "hóngyán huòshuǐ",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "word": "红颜祸水"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "femme fatale"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "word": "fatala virino"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "word": "viettelijätär"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "femme fatale"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Femme fatale"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "verhängnisvolle Frau"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "fam fatál",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "φαμ φατάλ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "word": "végzet asszonya"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "word": "femme fatale"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "femme fatale"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "donna fatale"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "famu fatāru",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "word": "ファム・ファタール"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ようじょ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yōjo",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "word": "妖女"
    },
    {
      "alt": "ようふ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "yōfu",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "word": "妖婦"
    },
    {
      "alt": "けいせいけいこく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "keisei keikoku",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "word": "傾城傾国"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "pam patal",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "word": "팜 파탈"
    },
    {
      "alt": "妖婦",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "yobu",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "word": "요부"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "femme fatale"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kobieta fatalna"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "femme fatale"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "rokovája žénščina",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "рокова́я же́нщина"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "fam-fatálʹ",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "фам-фата́ль"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bean bhàsail"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "mujer fatal"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "seductive and dangerous woman",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "femme fatale"
    }
  ],
  "word": "femme fatale"
}

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