foeman

Other forms of foeman

plural

foemans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about foeman

What does foeman mean?

foeman means "an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)".

How many syllables are in foeman?

foeman has 3 syllables: fo-e-man. The stress falls on "fo".

What is another word for foeman?

Close synonyms include enemy, foe, opposition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is foeman a common word?

foeman is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.