siren call

1. 1.

   the enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous

   “he succumbed to the siren call of the wilderness”

   Synonymssiren song

   Broaderappeal

Questions about siren call

What does siren call mean?

siren call means "the enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous".

What is another word for siren call?

Close synonyms include siren song. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is siren call a common word?

siren call is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.