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foe¹

  • /fəʊ/ UK
  • /foʊ/ US

Sounds like faux, pho (one pronunciaton), fow (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier yfoh, yvo, ifa (“foe”), from Old English ġefāh (“enemy”), from fāh (“hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (compare Old Frisian fāch (“punishable”), Middle High German gevēch (“feuder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peyk/ḱ- (“to hate, be hostile”) (compare Middle Irish óech (“enemy, fiend”), Lithuanian pi̇̀ktas (“evil”)).

adjective

  1. obsolete Hostile. he, I say, could passe into Affrike onely with two simple ships or small barkes, to commit himselfe in a strange and foe countrie, to engage his person, under the power of a barbarous King […].

noun foes

  1. An enemy. And a mans foes ſhalbe they of his owne houſhold.

foe²

  • /fəʊ/ UK
  • /foʊ/ US

Sounds like faux, pho (one pronunciaton), fow (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ

Where it comes from

Acronym of [ten to the power of] fifty-one ergs, due to equalling 10⁵¹ ergs; coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe.

noun foes

  1. A unit of energy equal to 10⁴⁴ joules.

FoE³

proper noun FOE

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Friends of the Earth.Friends of the Earth

FOE⁴

proper noun FoE

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Friends of the Earth.Friends of the Earth
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Fraternal Order of Eagles.Fraternal Order of Eagles

noun FoE

  1. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of freedom of expression.freedom of expression
  2. abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of forces of evil.forces of evil

Foe⁵

proper noun

  1. A surname from German.

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