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Siren

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A village, the county seat of Burnett County, Wisconsin, United States.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A village, the county seat of Burnett County, Wisconsin, United States.

  2. 2

    A town in Burnett County, Wisconsin, United States, surrounding the village of the same name.

Etymology

Intended to be Syren, from Swedish syren (“lilac”), but miscorrected by the US Post Office, who assumed this was a misspelling.

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