FOEMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does foeman mean? 

• FOEMAN (noun)
  The noun FOEMAN has 1 sense:

1. an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)

  Familiarity information: FOEMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOEMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

enemy; foe; foeman; opposition

Context example:

a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies

Hypernyms ("foeman" 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 "foeman"):

besieger (an enemy who lays siege to your position)

Holonyms ("foeman" is a member of...):

enemy (an opposing military force)

 Context examples 

Yet his experienced foeman knew well that such efforts could not be long sustained.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They appreciated him as a foeman worthy of their intellect, and they listened intently, following every word.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

In an instant he, too, was in the Garonne, striking out with powerful strokes for his late foeman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aye, Jenkin, said another, our foeman is under the stole and the vestment as much as under the helmet and plate of proof.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He bounded back from his perilous foeman; but the other, heated by the bout, rushed madly after him, and so gave the practised wrestler the very vantage for which he had planned.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Pasques Dieu!” cried the archer, loosening his jerkin, and eyeing his foeman over with the keen glance of one who is a judge of manhood.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Ill have I had from them, and ill I shall repay them. I am a good friend to my friends, and, by the Virgin! an evil foeman to my foes.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Back and back still his foeman bent him, until, with a roar of pain and of fury, the giant clanged his full length upon the boards, while the glimmer of a knife before the bars of his helmet warned him that short would be his shrift if he moved.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On and on came Alleyne, his jagged point now at his foeman's face, now at his throat, now at his chest, still stabbing and thrusting to pass the line of steel which covered him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A further protection lay in the broad and powerful guard which crossed the hilt, and which was furnished with a deep and narrow notch, in which an expert swordsman might catch his foeman's blade, and by a quick turn of his wrist might snap it across.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)