fiance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a man who is engaged to be married

   Her fiance traveled overnight to be with her at the hospital.

Borrowed from French fiancé, the masculine past participle of fiancer ("to betroth"), ultimately related to foi ("faith, pledge") and Latin fides ("faith"). English commonly writes the word both with its French accent, fiancé, and without it, fiance.

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