foe

First recorded before 900; Middle English foo, Old English fāh “hostile,” gefāh “enemy”; cognate with Old High German gifēh “at war”; see origin at feud¹

synonym study for foe

1. See enemy.

Definition for foe (2 of 2)

F.O.E.

abbreviation

Fraternal Order of Eagles.

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But Brown had not been among those Johnson heard speak of the cops as foes.
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It was a gracious touch, a rhetorical olive branch to his vanquished foes.
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They decapitate those men deemed foes of their faith and celebrate the gore online, holding up the severed heads.
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And decency is our great, guiding strength as we face such monstrous foes as ISIS.
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Nevertheless, Grande manages to shoot her foes to smithereens.
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With twelve hundred foes around us, we had plenty to occupy all our thoughts and attention.
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He sincerely hates all anti-tobaccoites and has a supreme disgust for the memory of King James I. and all royal foes of the plant.
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Thus it fell to the lot of the Marshal once more to hand over Paris to the foes of those to whom his allegiance was due.
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When many foes appear new vows of an appropriate kind should be entered into against them.
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Most of them took him for a guerrilla fleeing from his foes, and looked in vain for blue-coated pursuers.
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British Dictionary definitions for foe (1 of 2)

foe

/ (fəʊ) /

noun

formal, or literary another word for enemy

Word Origin for foe

Old English fāh hostile; related to Old High German fēhan to hate, Old Norse feikn dreadful; see feud 1

British Dictionary definitions for foe (2 of 2)

FoE

FOE

abbreviation for

Friends of the Earth

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