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foe

adj
/fəʊ/UK/foʊ/US

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”)).

  1. derived from *peyḱ-✻
  2. inherited from *faihaz✻
  3. inherited from *faih✻
  4. inherited from ġefāh
  5. inherited from fo

Definitions

  1. 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 […].

  2. An enemy.

    • And a mans foes ſhalbe they of his owne houſhold.

  3. A unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules.

  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Initialism of Friends of the Earth.

    2. Initialism of Fraternal Order of Eagles.

    3. Initialism of freedom of expression.

    4. Initialism of forces of evil.

    5. A surname from German.

The neighborhood

  • antonymallyantonym(s) of “enemy”
  • antonymfriendantonym(s) of “enemy”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA