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LORELEI
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• LORELEI (noun)
The noun LORELEI has 1 sense:
1. a Siren of German legend who lured boatmen in the Rhine to destruction
Familiarity information: LORELEI used as a noun is very rare.
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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