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Webster 1913 Edition
Foe
Foe
(fō)
, Noun.
1.
One who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy.
A man’s
foes
shall be they of his own household. Matt. x. 36
2.
An enemy in war; a hostile army.
3.
One who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion.
A
foe
to received doctrines. I. Watts
Foe
,Verb.
T.
To treat as an enemy.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
Webster 1828 Edition
Foe
FOE
,Noun.
fo.
1.
An enemy; one who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge or malice against another.A man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matt. 10.
2.
An enemy in war; one of a nation at war with another, whether he entertains enmity against the opposing nation or not; an adversary.Either three years famine, or three months to be destroyed before they foes. 1Chron. 21.
3.
Foe, like enemy, in the singular, is used to denote an opposing army, or nation at war.4.
An opponent; an enemy; one who opposes any thing in principle; an ill-wisher; as a foe to religion; a foe to virtue; a foe to the measures of the administration.FOE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
foe
foe
English
Adjective
foe (comparative more foe, superlative most foe)
- (obsolete) Hostile.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, vol.1, ch.23:
- 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 […].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, vol.1, ch.23:
Noun
foe (plural foes)
- An enemy.
- 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
- Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
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Synonyms
Antonyms
Translations
enemy — see enemy
Etymology 2
Acronym of fifty-one ergs., due to the value of a "foe", 1 foe = 1051ergs; coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe.
Noun
foe (plural foes)
- A unit of energy equal to 1044joules.
Synonyms
- bethe (B)