Synonyms for foe

Grammar : Noun

Spell : foh

Phonetic Transcription : foʊ

Définition of foe

Origin : Old English gefa "foe, enemy, adversary in a blood feud" (the prefix denotes "mutuality"), from fah "at feud, hostile," from Proto-Germanic *fakhaz (cf. Old High German fehan "to hate," Gothic faih "deception"), probably from PIE root *peig- "evil-minded, treacherous, hostile" (cf. Sanskrit pisunah "malicious," picacah "demon;" Greek pikros "bitter;" Lithuanian piktas "wicked, angry," pekti "to blame"). Weaker sense of "adversary" is first recorded c.1600.

noun person who is an opponent

Example sentences :

It contrasts "foe and friend," just as the sonnet contrasts "love and hate."
Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris

We are natural enemies; and when your foe is disabled, then is the time to strike.
Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell

By this time, the first of August, we knew more about the foe we were to meet.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

They lie at the mercy of every foe, of every passion, of every change.
Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox

You were friendless, and the man who has all earth for a foe befriends you.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Ignorant of the law—the law only seemed to him, as it ever does to the ignorant and the friendless—a Foe.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

And had I been as much your foe, as you imagine, you had not perhaps been here now.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

All seemed eagerly awaiting the command to rush against the foe.
Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis

He was daily worse fed, and as the weeks went by was daily less able to crush a foe.
Extract from : « The Biography of a Grizzly » by Ernest Seton-Thompson

We have made such treaty as never yet was made between foe and foe.
Extract from : « Leila, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Antonyms for foe

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