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FOEMAN

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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:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("foeman" 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 "foeman"):

besieger (an enemy who lays siege to your position)

Holonyms ("foeman" is a member of...):

enemy (an opposing military force)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Sir Nigel, meanwhile, had found a foeman worthy of his steel for his opponent was none other than Sebastian Gomez, the picked lance of the monkish Knights of Santiago, who had won fame in a hundred bloody combats with the Moors of Andalusia.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)