siren song

1. 1.

   the enticing appeal of something alluring but potentially dangerous

   “he succumbed to the siren call of the wilderness”

   Synonymssiren call

   Broaderappeal

Questions about siren song

What does siren song mean?

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

What is another word for siren song?

Close synonyms include siren call. 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 song a common word?

siren song 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.