enemy

Meanings

Noun

• Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
• A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
• Something harmful or threatening to another
• Of, by, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.
• A non-player character that tries to harm the player.

Verb

• To make an enemy of.

Origin

• From Middle English enemy, enemye, enmy, borrowed from Old French enemi, anemi (Modern French ennemi), from Latin inimīcus, from in- + amīcus. Displaced Middle English feend, from Old English fēond, which survived into Modern English as fiend, but with a different meaning.