enemy

«enemy» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who hates you or wants to harm you, or someone… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an enemy, enemies)

meaning for a pupil

1) An enemy is a person who hates you or wants to harm you, or someone you fight against. tree →

2) The enemy is the army or country fighting against your side in a war. tree →

3) An enemy is anything that harms something: Frost is the enemy of flowers. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and history, heroes face enemies and armies fight enemies in wars. In nature lessons, predators are the natural enemies of their prey. In feelings lessons, pupils learn ways to turn enemies into friends. Phrases: make enemies, natural enemy, enemy forces, worst enemy.

examples

• The knight fought his enemy bravely. tree →
• Cats are the natural enemies of mice. tree →
• The enemy army came over the hill. tree →
• Try not to make enemies at school. tree →
• The two kings were enemies for many years. tree →
• Batman and the Joker are enemies. tree →
• Laziness is the enemy of success. tree →
• Suddenly the enemy came in sight. tree →

note

Plural: enemies (y changes to ies). Use an: an enemy. Opposite: friend, ally. Adjective: hostile; noun: enmity. Archenemy means the main enemy.

In the corpora

• Most American tarantulas flick itchy barbed hairs at enemies, and female tarantulas can live 20 to 30 years.
• Real dogs and cats are not enemies by nature.
• Octopuses change colour in a flash with millions of tiny colour sacs in their skin, to hide, show mood or startle enemies.
• In this old story the Rat carries them to scare off enemies.
• Toad boasts to himself: «My enemies shut me up in prison...

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «enemy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.