foe
An enemyAn enemy.
» Are you a friend or foe?
Bist du Freund oder Feind?
Sind Sie Freund oder Feind?
Ты друг или враг?
Вы друг или враг?
Meaning
2 sensesAn enemy.
a personal enemy
A unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules.
Examples
26 sentencesAre you a friend or foe?
ruТы друг или враг?
deBist du Freund oder Feind?
We have to defeat our foes.
Ми маємо перемогти наших ворогів.
We must defeat our foes.
Ми маємо перемогти наших ворогів.
We must vanquish our foes.
Ми маємо перемогти наших ворогів.
The two political parties are irreconcilable foes.
Origin
From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier yfoh, yvo, ifa (“foe”), from Old EngFrom 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”)).
Acronym of [ten to the power of] fifty-one ergs, due to equalling 10⁵¹ ergs; coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe.
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Forms
plural: foesSynonyms
6 synonyms- a personal enemy:enemy
- an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force):enemyopposition