enemy
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Noun (4)enemies
- an opposing military force“the enemy attacked at dawn”Type of military unit, military forceMembers foe, opposition
- an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)“a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies”Synonyms: foeoppositionType of adversary, antagonistKinds besieger, foeman
- any hostile group of people“he viewed lawyers as the real enemy”Type of people
- a personal enemy“they had been political foes for years”Synonyms: foeOpposite friendType of rival, challengerKinds mortal enemy
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Translations
Noun hostile person, foe
- Spanish
- enemigo
- French
- ennemi
- German
- Feind
- Italian
- nemico
- Portuguese
- inimigo
- Turkish
- düşman
- Russian
- враг vrag
- Arabic
- عَدُوّ ʕaduww
- Chinese
- 敌人 dírén
- Japanese
- 敵 teki
33 more languages
- Dutch
- vijand
- Polish
- wróg
- Swedish
- fiende
- Greek
- εχθρός echthrós
- Korean
- 원수 wonsu
- Indonesian
- musuh
- Vietnamese
- kẻ thù
- Hungarian
- ellenség
- Portuguese (PT)
- inimigo
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 仇敵 chóudí
- Albanian
- armik
- Catalan
- enemic
- Czech
- nepřítel
- Danish
- fjende
- Esperanto
- malamiko
- Estonian
- vaenlane
- Finnish
- vihollinen
- Georgian
- მტერი mṭeri
- Hebrew
- אוֹיֵב oyév
- Icelandic
- óvinur
- Kurdish
- dijmin
- Latvian
- ienaidnieks
- Lithuanian
- priešas
- Malagasy
- dovy
- Norwegian
- fiende
- Romanian
- dușman
- Scottish Gaelic
- nàmhaid
- Serbo-Croatian
- neprijatelj
- Slovak
- nepriateľ
- Slovenian
- sovražnik
- Swahili
- adui
- Welsh
- gelyn
- Yiddish
- פֿײַנד faynd
Adjective of, relating to, or belonging to an enemy
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OF. enemi, F. ennemi, from L. inimicus; in- (negative) + amicus friend. See Amicable.
One hostile to another; one who hates, and desires or attempts the injury of, another; a foe; an adversary; as, an enemy of or to a person; an enemy to truth, or to falsehood.
To all good he enemy was still.— Edmund Spenser
I say unto you, Love your enemies.— Matt. v. 44.
The enemy Military, the hostile force. In this sense it is construed with the verb and pronoun either in the singular or the plural, but more commonly in the singular; as, we have met the enemy and he is ours or they are ours.
It was difficult in such a country to track the enemy. It was impossible to drive him to bay.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Synonyms: Foe; antagonist; opponent. See Adversary.
Hostile; inimical. obsolete
They... every day grow more enemy to God.— Taylor, Jeremy
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54