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" Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."
Arthur Bloch

Meaning of "enemies" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF ENEMIES

enemies


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENEMIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Enemies is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ENEMIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Enemy

Enemy or foe is a relativist term for an entity, whether an individual or a group, that is seen as forcefully adverse or threatening. The concept of an enemy has been observed to be "basic for both individuals and communities". The term "enemy" serves the social function of designating a particular entity as a threat, thereby invoking an intense emotional response to that entity. The state of being or having an enemy is enmity, foehood or foeship.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENEMIES

enema · enemata · enemy · enemy action · enemy alien · enemy-occupied · energetic · energetical · energetically · energetics · energic · energid · energies · energisation · energise · energiser · energization · energize · energizer · energizing

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENEMIES

academies · alchemies · anatomies · archenemies · armies · autonomies · blasphemies · demies · dichotomies · dummies · economies · Grammies · gummies · hysterectomies · jammies · mummies · shimmies · tommies · tummies · vasectomies

Synonyms and antonyms of enemies in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ENEMIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «enemies» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «enemies» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF ENEMIES

Find out the translation of enemies to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of enemies from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «enemies» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

的敌人
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

enemigos
570 millions of speakers
en

English

enemies
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

दुश्मन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أعداء
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

враги
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

inimigos
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

শত্রুদের
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

ennemis
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Musuh
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Feinde
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Mungsuh
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kẻ thù
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

எதிரிகள்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

शत्रू
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

düşmanları
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

nemici
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

wrogowie
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

вороги
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

dușmani
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εχθρούς
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vyande
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fiender
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fiender
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of enemies

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENEMIES»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of enemies
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about enemies

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «ENEMIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word enemies.
1
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
2
Clement Attlee
The last of our enemies is laid low.
3
Daisy Bates
The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.
4
Paul Begala
Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged.
5
Elizabeth Berkley
Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?
6
Arthur Bloch
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
7
Roy Blount, Jr.
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
8
Christopher Bond
Abroad, our most important policy is to support our troops and continue forward-thinking foreign policy in the war on terror - keeping our enemies on the run and hitting them before they hit us.
9
Paul Broun
When I was sworn in the Marine Corps in 1964, when I was sworn into Congress, I swore to uphold the Constitution against enemies, both foreign and domestic. We have a lot of domestic enemies of - of the Constitution, those who want to pervert it, those who want to change it.
10
Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENEMIES»

Discover the use of enemies in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to enemies and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Enemies: A History of the FBI
Presents the history of the FBI's secret intelligence operations, detailing how the bureau has been used to conduct political warfare, and how it became the most powerful intelligence service in the United States.
Tim Weiner, 2013
2
Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth ...
Coming in Summer 2009, the major motion picture from Universal Studios "ludicrously entertaining" (Time), Public Enemies is the story of the most spectacular crime wave in American history, the two-year battle between the young J. Edgar ...
Bryan Burrough, 2009
3
The Open Society and Its Enemies
'If in this book harsh words are spoken about some of the greatest among the intellectual leaders of mankind, my motive is not, I hope, to belittle them.
Karl Raimund Popper, Václav Havel, Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich, 2011
4
Enemies, A Love Story
A Jewish refugee who escaped Hitler's Holocaust and is living in New York with his second wife faces a dilemma when he discovers that his first wife is still alive
Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1988
5
Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America
In this enthralling book Robert Goldberg focuses on five major conspiracy theories of the past half-century, examining how they became widely popular in the United States and why they have remained so.
Robert Alan Goldberg, 2008
6
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
In the twenty-first century, Germany's Third Reich continues to thrive after its victory in World War II-keeping most of Europe and North America under its heel.
Harry Turtledove, 2004
7
Intimate Enemies: Moral Panics in Contemporary Great Britain
Intimate Enemies describes the creation of a journalistically induced panic in Great Britain during the the 1980s - a decade of intense concern about a closely related set of perceived problems: sexual abuse of children, child pornography, ...
Philip Jenkins
8
A Nation of Enemies: Chile Under Pinochet
Explains how Pinochet took advantage of a stunted Chilean economy and how he used the backing of U.S. anti-communism to transform Chile into a brutal dictatorship
Pamela Constable, 1993
9
Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American ...
"Combining research with personal experience, Betts outlines strategies for better intelligence gathering and assessment.
Richard K. Betts, 2013
10
Best Enemies
Some Girls Just Have To Be The Best At Everything.
Jessica Burkhart, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENEMIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term enemies is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Revealed: IRS plan to prosecute Obama's political enemies
Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he ... «WND.com, Jul 15»
2
I fight with everyone but I have no enemies: Nana Patekar
Actor Nana Patekar agrees that he fights with everyone, but maintains that he has no enemies. Patekar, 64, who will be seen next in Anees ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
3
Women sometimes women's worst enemies
Some studies have looked beyond business circles to women in power who become other women's worst enemies. A recent example is Carly ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
4
Bethesda Scrapping Auto-Scaling For Fallout 4 Enemies, New …
We'll have an area where enemies scale from level 5 to 10, and then this area will be level 30 and above. You'll run into stuff that will crush you, ... «Gamepur, Jul 15»
5
Know Your Premier League Enemies: (North) London Calling
We were reminded, perhaps too well, last season by Alexis Sanchez that Liverpool is not London. For centuries, London was the beating heart ... «The Liverpool Offside, Jul 15»
6
Ex-Muslim: 'Muslims Are Not the Enemies, But the Prize'
We are part of the only kingdom where the King of our kingdom died for His enemies. It is us for them, not us against them. We want to see them ... «Charisma News, Jul 15»
7
Brutal enemies 20 years ago, they're learning to get along. In Phoenix.
A group of Serbian-speaking men have a leisurely lunch at the Q2 Café in Phoenix. The café, run by a Bosnian Serb refugee, aims to attract ... «PRI, Jul 15»
8
Budget 2015: Watch Iain Duncan Smith perform the double fist pump …
Iain Duncan Smith has managed to make even more enemies after performing a double fist pump during the Budget. He could hardly control ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
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Thousands of enemies arrived in Pakistan disguised as NGOs …
ISLAMABAD: Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday revealed that thousands of enemies arrived in Pakistan disguised ... «ARY NEWS, Jul 15»
10
Helldivers free expansion brings new enemies of democracy
I loved Helldivers. I might have loved it too much – playing all the time even after writing my review, and even playing with strangers online. «Lazygamer, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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