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What does FOE mean?

Definitions for FOEfoʊfoe

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word FOE.

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. enemy, foe, foeman, oppositionnoun

    an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)

    "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies"

  2. foe, enemynoun

    a personal enemy

    "they had been political foes for years"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. FOEnoun

    Etymology: fah, Saxon; fae, Scottish.

    1. An enemy in war.

    Ere he had established his throne,He fought great battles with his savage fone,In which he them defeated ever more. Fairy Queen, b. ii.

    Never but one more was either likeTo meet so great a foe. John Milton.

    2. A persecutor; an enemy in common life.

    God’s benison go with you, and with thoseThat would make good of bad, and friends of foes. William Shakespeare.

    Forc’d by thy worth, thy foe in death become;Thy friend has lodg’d thee in a costly tomb. John Dryden, Fab.

    Thy defects to know,Make use of ev’ry friend, and ev’ry foe. Alexander Pope.

    3. An opponent; an illwisher.

    He that considers and enquires into the reason of things, is counted a foe to received doctrines. Isaac Watts, Imp. of the Mind.

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  1. foe

    A foe is an enemy or opponent, someone who is hostile or against someone else. This can refer to individuals or groups in various contexts such as personal relationships, politics, sports, war, and more.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

  1. Foenoun

    one who entertains personal enmity, hatred, grudge, or malice, against another; an enemy

  2. Foenoun

    an enemy in war; a hostile army

  3. Foenoun

    one who opposes on principle; an opponent; an adversary; an ill-wisher; as, a foe to religion

  4. Foeverb

    to treat as an enemy

  5. Etymology: [OE. fo, fa, AS. fh hostile; prob. akin to E. fiend. 81. See Fiend, and cf. Feud a quarrel.]

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  1. Foe

    Foe is a 1986 novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. Woven around the existing plot of Robinson Crusoe, Foe is written from the perspective of Susan Barton, a castaway who landed on the same island inhabited by "Cruso" and Friday as their adventures were already underway. Like Robinson Crusoe, it is a frame story, unfolded as Barton's narrative while in England attempting to convince the writer Daniel Foe to help transform her tale into popular fiction. Focused primarily on themes of language and power, the novel was the subject of criticism in South Africa, where it was regarded as politically irrelevant on its release. Coetzee revisited the composition of Robinson Crusoe in 2003 in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Foe

    fō, n. an enemy: one who, or that which, injures or hinders anything: an ill-wisher.—ns. Foe′man, an enemy in war:—pl. Foe′men; Fō′en (Spens.), pl. of foe. [M. E. foo—A.S. fáh, fá (adj.), allied to the compound n. gefá; cf. féogan, to hate.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. foe

    An enemy in war; a national enemy; a hostile army; an adversary.

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  1. FOE

    What does FOE stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the FOE acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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  1. FOE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Foe is ranked #59742 in terms of the most common surnames in America.The Foe surname appeared 338 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Foe.78.4% or 265 total occurrences were White.7.9% or 27 total occurrences were Black.5.9% or 20 total occurrences were Asian.4.1% or 14 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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    • Adversary
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Anagrams for FOE »

  1. EOF

How to pronounce FOE?

  1. AlexUS EnglishDavidUS EnglishMarkUS EnglishDanielBritishLibbyBritishMiaBritishKarenAustralianHayleyAustralianNatashaAustralianVeenaIndianPriyaIndianNeerjaIndianZiraUS EnglishOliverBritishWendyBritishFredUS EnglishTessaSouth African

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of FOE in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of FOE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of FOE in a Sentence

  1. John F. Kennedy:

    Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.

  2. Goa Kerle:

    Everyone is my friend, everyone is my foe.

  3. John Fitzgerald Kennedy:

    Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

  4. Percival:

    One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

  5. Henry David Thoreau:

    When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

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FOE#10000#20381#100000

References

  1. ^ Princeton's WordNethttp://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=FOE
  2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionaryhttps://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=FOE
  3. ^ ChatGPThttps://chat.openai.com
  4. ^ Webster Dictionaryhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/FOE
  5. ^ Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=FOE
  6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionaryhttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=FOE
  7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteerhttps://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
  8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Recordshttps://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
  9. ^ Usage in printed sourceshttps://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=FOE

Translations for FOE

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  • vihollinenFinnish
  • ennemiFrench
  • दु� ्मनHindi
  • אוֹיֵבHebrew
  • ವೈರಿKannada
  • คู่อริThai
  • kẻ thùVietnamese

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