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foe

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6
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6
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/fəʊ/
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Definition of foe

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (obsolete)Hostile.
    “he, I say, could passe into Affrike onely with two simple ships or small barkes, to commit himselfe in a strange and foe countrie, to engage his person, under the power of a barbarous King […].”
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adj

  1. (obsolete)Hostile.
    “he, I say, could passe into Affrike onely with two simple ships or small barkes, to commit himselfe in a strange and foe countrie, to engage his person, under the power of a barbarous King […].”

noun

  1. An enemy.
    “And a mans foes ſhalbe they of his owne houſhold.”
    “Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.”
  2. A unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of freedom of expression.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of forces of evil.

name

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Friends of the Earth.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Friends of the Earth.
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Fraternal Order of Eagles.
  4. A surname from German.

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Etymology

From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier yfoh, yvo, ifa (“foe”), from Old English ġefāh (“enemy”), from fāh (“hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (compare Old Frisian fāch (“punishable”), Middle High German gevēch (“feuder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk/ḱ- (“to hate, be hostile”) (compare Middle Irish óech (“enemy, fiend”), Lithuanian pi̇̀ktas (“evil”)).

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