fiancee

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a woman who is engaged to be married

   He introduced Maria as his fiancee and said that they would marry in June.

Borrowed from French fiancee, the feminine form of fiance ("betrothed"), the past participle of fiancer ("to promise in marriage"). The French family descends through Old French fiance ("promise, trust") from a Latin root associated with fidere ("to trust") and fides ("faith").

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