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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
Example:
a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies
Synonyms:
enemy; foe; foeman; opposition
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("foe" is a kind of...):
adversary; antagonist; opponent; opposer; resister (someone who offers opposition)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foe"):
besieger (an enemy who lays siege to your position)
Holonyms ("foe" is a member of...):
enemy (an opposing military force)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A personal enemy
Example:
they had been political foes for years
Synonyms:
enemy; foe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("foe" is a kind of...):
challenger; competition; competitor; contender; rival (the contestant you hope to defeat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foe"):
mortal enemy (an enemy who wants to kill you)
Antonym:
friend (an associate who provides cooperation or assistance)
Context examples:
But all of my own sex—especially one impostor, three or four years my elder, with a red whisker, on which he established an amount of presumption not to be endured—were my mortal foes.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The demure servant was gone, and there stood in his place a deep and dangerous man, one who might be an ardent lover or a most vindictive foe.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Not a bough waved, not the gleam of a musket-barrel betrayed the presence of our foes.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Truly Miss Lucy, if she be sad in the foes that beset her, is at least happy in the friends that love her.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
As I said, I am an individualist, and individualism is the hereditary and eternal foe of socialism.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
From then onwards, we were in truth masters of the plateau, for the natives looked upon us with a mixture of fear and gratitude, since by our strange powers we had aided them to destroy their hereditary foe.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A distinguished personage happened to visit the school that morning, and Amy's beautifully drawn maps received praise, which honor to her foe rankled in the soul of Miss Snow, and caused Miss March to assume the airs of a studious young peacock.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Return as heroes who have fought and conquered and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“Ill have I had from them, and ill I shall repay them. I am a good friend to my friends, and, by the Virgin! an evil foeman to my foes.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He sprang upon Buck, and twice his teeth sank into his unresisting foe and ripped and tore the flesh to the bone.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
