Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as siren, 8.
  • noun In zoology, same as Siren, 6 .

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See siren, 6.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A type of brine cheese popular on the Balkan peninsula.

Etymologies

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From Bulgarian сирене (sirene), from Proto-Slavic, from Proto-Indo-European *suros, whence English sour, German sauer.

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Examples

  • Why not install some kind of loud warning, a sirene, etc,, in the pilots area that one of the flight crew could hit if they thought something was wrong? allen morris

    Nap time for pilots? 2009

  • The best food I've had here so far has to be the Shopska Salat - a simple salad made with tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, red peppers, parsley, and sirene cheese sort of like feta, mixed together.

    Zdravete ot Bulgaria Greg 2008

  • The best food I've had here so far has to be the Shopska Salat - a simple salad made with tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, red peppers, parsley, and sirene cheese sort of like feta, mixed together.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Greg 2008

  • Banitsa is a traditional Bulgarian pastry prepared by layering a mixture of whisked eggs and pieces of sirene white cheese between filo pastry and then baking it in an oven.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Eric Wiley 2007

  • Banitsa is a traditional Bulgarian pastry prepared by layering a mixture of whisked eggs and pieces of sirene white cheese between filo pastry and then baking it in an oven.

    Boza Rocketpop & Banitsa Eric Wiley 2007

  • Dopo un incidente di mare, la ciurma di una nave è attirata da uno stuolo di sirene.

    No Fat Clips!!! : LOREDANA – Copiii sirenelor 2007

  • Le hurlement d'une sirene dechire les tenebres ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Vous savez comme les deux anguilles de la mechante dans la petite sirene de Disney (les references pourrie) bref ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • That's how you say french fries with sirene a feta-like cheese in Bulgarian.

    Archive 2005-04-01 Eric Wiley 2005

  • That's how you say french fries with sirene a feta-like cheese in Bulgarian.

    A Letter to the Students at da Vinci Arts Middle School Eric Wiley 2005

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