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Definition of Foeman
1. Noun. An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force). "A soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies"
Group relationships: Enemy
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Generic synonyms: Adversary, Antagonist, Opponent, Opposer, Resister
Specialized synonyms: Besieger
Definition of Foeman
1. n. An enemy in war.
Definition of Foeman
1. Noun. An enemy; a foe in battle; an armed or unarmed adversary; a demon ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foeman
1. an enemy in war [n FOEMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foeman
Literary usage of Foeman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"Oft have I traced, within thy fort, Perchance he would not foeman's eye Scutcheons
of honor or pretence, Quartered in old armorial sort, Of mouldering ..."
2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"... as sinking prone On his rent side he fell; above him rang His armor; and from
lips with blood defiled He breathed his last upon his foeman's ground. ..."
3. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"I had been content to perish, falling OD Where the dying night-lamp flickers,
and the shadows rue and fall. the foeman's ground, When the ranks are roll'd ..."
4. Church Melodies: A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, with Appropriate Music by Thomas Hastings (1859)
"HEIR of an immortal crown, Heed not every foeman's frown, Tread the powers of
darkness down, Through Jehovah's might 1 Though they oft in wrath arise, ..."
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