Foe meaning

fō

The definition of a foe is an enemy or opponent.

A person who you are always trying to defeat in games is an example of your foe.

noun

Enemy (in all senses)

noun

Fraternal Order of Eagles.

initialism

Friends of the Earth.

initialism

Fraternal Order of Eagles.

abbreviation

(obsolete) Hostile.

adjective

Something that is destructive or injurious.

Taxes that were the foe of economic development.

noun

A unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules.

noun

noun

An enemy in war.

noun

Middle English fo from Old English gefā from fāh hostile

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English fo 'foe; hostile', from earlier ifo 'foe', from Old English ġefāh 'enemy', from fāh 'hostile', from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (cf. Old Frisian fāch 'punishable', Middle High German gevēch 'feuder'), from Proto-Indo-European *peik/k̑- 'to hate, be hostile' (cf. Middle Irish oech 'enemy, fiend', Latin piget 'he is annoying', Lithuanian piktas ‘evil’, Albanian pis ‘dirty, scoundrel’).

From Wiktionary
An acronym of fifty-one ergs

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