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ENEMY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any hostile group of people
Example:
he viewed lawyers as the real enemy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("enemy" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An opposing military force
Example:
the enemy attacked at dawn
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("enemy" is a kind of...):
force; military force; military group; military unit (a unit that is part of some military service)
Meronyms (members of "enemy"):
enemy; foe; foeman; opposition (an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force))
Sense 3
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 ("enemy" 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 "enemy"):
besieger (an enemy who lays siege to your position)
Holonyms ("enemy" is a member of...):
enemy (an opposing military force)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A personal enemy
Example:
they had been political foes for years
Synonyms:
enemy; foe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("enemy" is a kind of...):
challenger; competition; competitor; contender; rival (the contestant you hope to defeat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enemy"):
mortal enemy (an enemy who wants to kill you)
Context examples:
He could not tell what I meant by secrets of state, where an enemy, or some rival nation, were not in the case.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But I am likewise the knight who helped you to your victory over your enemies.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Immune responses to fungi are similar across vertebrates, and many animals are capable of learning to avoid natural enemies.
(Amphibians can acquire resistance to deadly fungus, NSF)
Elizabeth instantly read her feelings, and at that moment solicitude for Wickham, resentment against his enemies, and everything else, gave way before the hope of Jane's being in the fairest way for happiness.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
"We are the sworn enemies of society," he found himself quoted as saying in a column interview.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
But I too have been thinking over the past, and a question has suggested itself, whether there may not have been one person more my enemy even than that lady?
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
If ever a creature was the enemy of its kind, White Fang was that creature.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Yes, his enemies were the worst: they shed blood they had no right to shed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I am glad you are no enemy to matrimony, however.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
"Buy the vases," whispered Amy to Laurie, as a final heaping of coals of fire on her enemy's head.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
