Usually means: Opponent in conflict or competition.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. enemy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. enemy, the enemy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. enemy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. enemy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. enemy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Enemy, enemy, the enemy: Wordnik
  7. enemy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. enemy: Wiktionary
  9. enemy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. enemy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. enemy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Enemy, enemy, the enemy: Dictionary.com
  13. enemy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Enemy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. enemy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. enemy: Rhymezone
  18. enemy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. enemy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Enemy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. enemy, the enemy: Free Dictionary
  22. enemy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. The enemy, enemy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. enemy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. enemy: Online Etymology Dictionary

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Enemy: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Enemy (disambiguation), The Enemy, enemy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Enemy (disambiguation), Enemy, The Enemy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. enemy: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. enemy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. enemy, the enemy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Someone who is hostile to, feels hatred towards, opposes the interests of, or intends injury to someone else.
noun:  A hostile force or nation; a fighting member of such a force or nation.
noun:  Something harmful or threatening to another
noun:  (attributive) Of, by, relating to, or belonging to an enemy.
noun:  (video games) A non-player character that tries to harm the player.
verb:  To make an enemy of.

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