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adversary

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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishadversarie, fromAnglo-Normanaversaire (inWace'sLife of Saint Margaret) andOld Frenchaversier,aversaire (Frenchadversaire), fromLatinadversārius, fromadversus(turned toward).

Pronunciation

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  • (UK)IPA(key): /ˈæd.və.sɛɹi/,/ˈæd.və.s(ə)ɹi/,(dated)/ædˈvɜː.sə.ɹi/,/ədˈvɜː.sə.ɹi/[1]
  • (US)IPA(key): /ˈæd.vəɹˌsɛɹi/

Noun

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adversary (pluraladversaries)

  1. Anopponent orrival.
    He prepared to fight hisadversary.
    • 2017 June 8, Maeve Reston, “Trump meets the ultimate adversary in James Comey”, inCNN[2]:
      In the political drama that Donald Trump has created in Washington, he could not have dreamed up a more formidableadversary than James Comey.
    • 2021 March 17, Stephen Collinson, “New US intel report shows Russia, Trump and GOP acolytes have same goals”, inCNN[3]:
      The real bombshell it contains is not the confidence of the spy agencies that Russia hoped to subvert American democracy. It is that US intelligence experts effectively confirmed that for the second election in a row, Trump acolytes repeatedly used, knowingly or otherwise, misinformation produced by the spies of one of America’s most sworn foreignadversaries to try to win a US election.

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opponent

References

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  1. ^“Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 13 March 2022 (last accessed), archived fromthe original on25 April 2009
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