enemy (in all senses)
Origin of foe
Middle English fo, ifo from Old English fah, hostile, (ge)fah, enemy, akin to Old High German gef?h, at feud, hostile: for Indo-European base see feud
noun
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.
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FOE
Fraternal Order of Eagles
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foe
noun
- a. A personal enemy or opponent.b. One who is opposed to an idea or cause: a foe of tax reform.
- An enemy in war.
- Something that is destructive or injurious: taxes that were the foe of economic development.
Origin of foe
Middle English fo from Old English gefā from fāh hostileTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Origin
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’).
Origin
An acronym of fifty-one ergs
Initialism
- Friends of the Earth
Initialism
- Fraternal Order of Eagles
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Sentence Examples
- His foe was a worthy antagonist.
- 13) did they drive the foe out of Innsbruck.
- He brings foe men to their knees,... etc.
- 3, &c.), as the arsenal of orthodoxy against the same foe (with i Tim.
- When Alaric found himself once more outwitted by the machinations of such a foe, he marched southward and began in deadly earnest his third, his ever-memorable siege of Rome.
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