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# foe

«foe» in Mova's school dictionary: **an enemy, someone who wants to harm or beat you** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plural foes)

### meaning for a pupil

A foe is an enemy, someone who wants to harm or beat you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foe/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales and battles, the people on the other side of a fight; the opposite of a friend

### examples

- Do not give up friends for foes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foe/#x1)
- They snatched spears and shields from their foes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foe/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, even mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.397/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «foe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.