1. loud warning devices that make a wailing sound, used on emergency vehicles or to signal danger
2. in Greek mythology, sea creatures with beautiful voices who lured sailors to their deaths by singing
Usage: mythology
3. women who are dangerously attractive or seductive
Usage: figurative

Examples

• The ambulance sirens wailed as it rushed through traffic.
• Police sirens echoed through the empty streets at night.
• The fire station tested its sirens every Tuesday at noon.
• In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus had his crew plug their ears to avoid the sirens’ song.
• The sirens called to sailors from the rocky shore.
• She was considered one of Hollywood’s greatest sirens of the 1940s.
• The tornado sirens warned residents to take shelter immediately.