foe

CEFRC1

/fəʊ/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An enemy or opponent in a conflict or competition.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules.

Examples

  • Entering the foe's camp is full of danger.

  • He makes no friend who never made a foe.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /foʊ/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

  1. An enemy.

More examples

In context

  • 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 […].

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

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Origin

noun

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”)).