Friends vs Foe - What's the difference?
friends | foe |
Participants in a two-way friendship relationship.
(obsolete) Hostile.
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English
Noun
(head)- I tried to be a friend to Jane but we never ''really'' made friends . She was never a friend to me.
- Jane and I made friends right away.
- We became''' friends in the war and remain ' friends to this day.
- We were friends''' with some girls from the other school and stayed '''friends with them.
Usage notes
* We usually make a friend'', or ''make friends with someone. SeeStatistics
*Anagrams
* *foe
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) fo 'foe; hostile', from earlier ifo 'foe', from (etyl) 'to hate, be hostile' (compare Middle Irish oech 'enemy, fiend', Latin piget 'he is annoying', Lithuanian piktas ‘evil’, Albanian pis ‘dirty, scoundrel’).Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
Noun
(en noun)Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foe s’ glee.}}