Definitions for foe
foʊfoe

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 like
   To meet so great a foe. John Milton.

   2. A persecutor; an enemy in common life.

   God’s benison go with you, and with those
   That 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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.]

WikidataRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

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.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Matched Categories

1. • Adversary
   • Military

Anagrams for foe »

1. EOF

How to pronounce foe?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say foe in sign language?

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. Jeff Bechdel:

   Leveraging Bill Clinton Foundation donors, Clinton assisted in speeding up the Russians ’ weaponized technology sector, and in so doing, demonstrated she lacks the judgment necessary to determine friend from foe on the international stage.

2. Juvenal:

   Luxury is more deadly than any foe.

3. John Fitzgerald 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 born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

4. Donald Trump:

   We are demanding from foreign countries, friend and foe, fair and reciprocal trade. We have been very much taken advantage of as a country.

5. Thor Eells:

   If there is a weapon of any sort, not just guns, in somebody's hands when we respond in a situation like an active shooter or an assault in progress... officers have additional pressures placed upon( them) to evaluate an awful lot of info in a short period of time and hopefully arrive at the correct answer to mitigate danger to everyone involved, now as a responding officer, I have to very quickly, and when I say quickly : seconds, milliseconds ; make a determination in my mind, is this a friend or foe type of thing.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=foe
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=foe
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foe
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=foe
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=foe
7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html