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LORELEI

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Overview

LORELEI (noun)
  The noun LORELEI has 1 sense:

1. a Siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destructionplay

  Familiarity information: LORELEI used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


LORELEI (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A Siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Siren (a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived)


 Context examples 


While she talked, he seemed to hear, rippling softly, the song of the Lorelei.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)



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