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FOEMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
Example:
a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies
Synonyms:
enemy; foe; foeman; opposition
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("foeman" is a kind of...):
adversary; antagonist; opponent; opposer; resister (someone who offers opposition)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "foeman"):
besieger (an enemy who lays siege to your position)
Holonyms ("foeman" is a member of...):
enemy (an opposing military force)
Context examples:
Sir Nigel, meanwhile, had found a foeman worthy of his steel for his opponent was none other than Sebastian Gomez, the picked lance of the monkish Knights of Santiago, who had won fame in a hundred bloody combats with the Moors of Andalusia.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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