VIXEN | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of vixen in English

(Definition of vixen from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of vixen

vixen
Celebrities craft for themselves a mediated persona -- good parent, wholesome boy or girl next door, vixen or bad boy -- through which they establish societal influence.
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Invariably, youngsters are portrayed as vixens, not victims.
Whether a low-maintenance bohemian or high-maintenance vixen, everyone knows the importance of a good colorist, even more so with sterling locks.
Though she's played a troubled vixen on-screen, she's more of a do-gooder at heart and is well-respected for her humanitarian work.
Vixen gets a new lion spirit animation this week to go with the gorilla, which makes another appearance in this episode.
Selfish egocentrics who were mostly men, with the exception of the soap opera vixen type.
His eyes darted up and met those of the blonde vixen!
You saw how the one scream unnerved me, to say nothing of that little vixen grabbing my reins.
This vixen was closely related to the red fox to whom this cave had formerly belonged.
The vixen leaped warily and doubled with real agility.
For the vixens who are vixens of the highest quality, are always deliberate.
I want an angel for my wife, not a vixen.
That "model" character turned out to have the temper of a vixen.
He began to fear that that much bepraised dame was something of a vixen after all.
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Translations of vixen

in Chinese (Traditional)
雌狐, 潑婦, 悍婦…
in Chinese (Simplified)
雌狐, 泼妇, 悍妇…
in Spanish
zorra, raposa, arpía…
in Portuguese
raposa, megera…
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in Turkish
in French
in Dutch
in Czech
in Danish
in Indonesian
in Thai
in Vietnamese
in Polish
in Swedish
in Malay
in German
in Norwegian
in Ukrainian
in Russian
dişi tilki…
renarde…
moervos…
liška…
hunræv…
rubah betina…
สุนัขจิ้งจอกตัวเมีย…
con chồn cái…
lisica…
rävhona…
musang betina…
die Füchsin…
hunnrev, revetispe…
лисиця…
лисица…
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