Definitions for FOE

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FOE foe

Spelling: [foh]

IPA: /foʊ/

Foe is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in FOE (efo).

Definitions for FOE

noun

1. a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy:
2. a military enemy; hostile army.
3. a person belonging to a hostile army or nation.
4. an opponent in a game or contest; adversary:
5. a person who is opposed in feeling, principle, etc., to something:
6. a thing that is harmful to or destructive of something:

Origin of FOE

before 900; Middle English foo, Old English fāh hostile, gefāh enemy; cognate with Old High German gifēh at war. See feud¹

Examples for FOE

Which is how he and Johns made a living in their early days – as his foe Hilton Kramer liked to point out.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a foe of the industry, has been seated on the Senate banking committee.

Ignorant of the law—the law only seemed to him, as it ever does to the ignorant and the friendless—a foe.

By this time, the first of August, we knew more about the foe we were to meet.

To a progressive, he is both friend and foe; both visionary and reactionary.

It contrasts "foe and friend," just as the sonnet contrasts "love and hate."

In a GOP runoff today, candidate T.J. Fabby has attacked his foe for accepting Muslim money.

We are natural enemies; and when your foe is disabled, then is the time to strike.

In geopolitics, the doctrine of mutually assured destruction prevents the use of weapons of mass destruction against a foe.

They lie at the mercy of every foe, of every passion, of every change.