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disputant
English
Etymology
dispute +? -ant
Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /d??spjut?nt/
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??spju?.t?nt/
Noun
disputant (plural disputants)
- A participant in a dispute.
- 1893, Henry James, Collaboration [1]
- One of the liveliest scenes of the performance was the evening, last winter, on which I became aware that one of my compatriots – an American, my good friend Alfred Bonus – was engaged in a controversy somewhat acrimonious, on a literary subject, with Herman Heidenmauer, the young composer who had been playing to us divinely a short time before and whom I thought of neither as a disputant nor as an Englishman.
- 1893, Henry James, Collaboration [1]
Adjective
disputant (comparative more disputant, superlative most disputant)
- Disputing; engaged in controversy.
Catalan
Verb
disputant
- present participle of disputar
French
Verb
disputant
- present participle of disputer
Latin
Verb
disputant
- third-person plural present active indicative of disput?
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foe
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fo?/
- Rhymes: -??
- Homophone: faux
Etymology 1
From Middle English fo (“foe; hostile”), from earlier ifo (“foe”), from Old English ?ef?h (“enemy”), from f?h (“hostile”), from Proto-West Germanic *faih, from Proto-Germanic *faihaz (compare Old Frisian f?ch (“punishable”), Middle High German gev?ch (“feuder”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peik/k?- (“to hate, be hostile”) (compare Middle Irish óech (“enemy, fiend”), Lithuanian pìktas (“evil”)).
Adjective
foe
- (obsolete) Hostile.
- , vol.1, ch.23:
- 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 […].
- , vol.1, ch.23:
Translations
Noun
foe (plural foes)
- An enemy.
Synonyms
- (enemy): adversary, enemy, opponent.
Antonyms
- (enemy): ally, friend
Derived terms
- befoe
Translations
Etymology 2
Acronym of fifty-one ergs., due to the value of a "foe", 1 foe = 1051ergs; coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe.
Noun
foe (plural foes)
- A unit of energy equal to 1044 joules.
Synonyms
- bethe (B)
Anagrams
- EFO, EOF, OEF
Middle English
Noun
foe
- Alternative form of fo
Portuguese
Verb
foe
- Obsolete spelling of foi
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