What part of speech is foe?

Foe can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. foe is a noun, singular of foes.

Inflections

Noun

What does foe mean?

Definitions

Adjective

foe - Hostile.

Verb

foe - To treat as an enemy.

Noun

foe - a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years"
foe - an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies"

Examples of foe

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1. noun American citizens have for decades taken it as a given that our military can overwhelm and overcome any foe on the battlefield.
2. noun Man is a more dangerous foe to man than the elements of nature or animals in the wild.
3. noun He makes no friend who never made a foe.
4. noun Entering the foe's camp is full of danger.
5. noun When as brothers we unite, we’ll defeat the people’s foe.
6. noun Better a new friend than an old foe.
7. noun The universe is neither friend nor foe. It is simply indifferent.
8. noun Are you friend or foe?
9. noun "That shan't happen again," Fortunatus said to himself, and they started to ride at each other again. This time, Fortunatus's spear met his foe so powerfully that he flew from his horse like a ball and lay dead on the earth.
10. noun "My name / is good AEneas; from the flames and foe / I bear Troy's rescued deities. My fame / outsoars the stars of heaven; a Jove-born race, we claim / a home in fair Italia far away."
11. noun "Himself, a foe, oft lauded Troy's renown, / and claimed the Teucrian sires as kinsmen of his own."
12. noun "Thus while they waver and, perplex with doubt, / urge diverse counsels, and in parts divide, / lo, from the citadel, foremost of a rout, / breathless Laocoon runs, and from afar cries out: / 'Ah! wretched townsmen! do ye think the foe / gone, or that guileless are their gifts? O blind / with madness! Thus Ulysses do ye know?'"
13. noun We, massed in onset, make the foe retire, / and slay them, wildered, weetless of the way. / Fortune, with favouring smile, assists our first essay.
14. noun "Take we the Danaans' bucklers; with a foe / who asks, if craft or courage guide the blow? / Themselves shall arm us."
15. noun Witness, ye ashes of our comrades dear, / ye flames of Troy, that in your hour of woe / nor darts I shunned, nor shock of Danaan spear. / If Fate my life had called me to forego, / this hand had earned it, forfeit to the foe.
Sentence  
noun
American citizens have for decades taken it as a given that our military can overwhelm and overcome any foe on the battlefield.
Man is a more dangerous foe to man than the elements of nature or animals in the wild.
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
Entering the foe's camp is full of danger.
When as brothers we unite, we’ll defeat the people’s foe.
Better a new friend than an old foe.
The universe is neither friend nor foe. It is simply indifferent.
Are you friend or foe?
"That shan't happen again," Fortunatus said to himself, and they started to ride at each other again. This time, Fortunatus's spear met his foe so powerfully that he flew from his horse like a ball and lay dead on the earth.
"My name / is good AEneas; from the flames and foe / I bear Troy's rescued deities. My fame / outsoars the stars of heaven; a Jove-born race, we claim / a home in fair Italia far away."
"Himself, a foe, oft lauded Troy's renown, / and claimed the Teucrian sires as kinsmen of his own."
"Thus while they waver and, perplex with doubt, / urge diverse counsels, and in parts divide, / lo, from the citadel, foremost of a rout, / breathless Laocoon runs, and from afar cries out: / 'Ah! wretched townsmen! do ye think the foe / gone, or that guileless are their gifts? O blind / with madness! Thus Ulysses do ye know?'"
We, massed in onset, make the foe retire, / and slay them, wildered, weetless of the way. / Fortune, with favouring smile, assists our first essay.
"Take we the Danaans' bucklers; with a foe / who asks, if craft or courage guide the blow? / Themselves shall arm us."
Witness, ye ashes of our comrades dear, / ye flames of Troy, that in your hour of woe / nor darts I shunned, nor shock of Danaan spear. / If Fate my life had called me to forego, / this hand had earned it, forfeit to the foe.

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