Foe Definition

foes
noun
foes
A personal enemy or opponent.
American Heritage
One who is opposed to an idea or cause.
A foe of tax reform.
American Heritage

Enemy (in all senses)

Webster's New World
Something that is destructive or injurious.
Taxes that were the foe of economic development.
American Heritage

A unit of energy equal to 1044 joules.

Wiktionary
Antonyms:
abbreviation
Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Webster's New World
Friends of the Earth.
Wiktionary
Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Wiktionary
adjective

(obsolete) Hostile.

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Other Word Forms of Foe

Noun

Singular:
foe
Plural:
foes

Origin of Foe

  • 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

  • Middle English fo from Old English gefā from fāh hostile

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • An acronym of fifty-one ergs

    From Wiktionary

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