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With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.
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Meaning of "adversaries" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ADVERSARIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ADVERSARIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Adversaries is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ADVERSARIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Adversary

An adversary is generally considered to be a person, group, or force that opposes and/or attacks. Adversary may also refer to: ▪ Satan, in Judeo-Christian religion...

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ADVERSARIES

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adverbially
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adversariness
adversary
adversative
adversatively
adverse
adverse possession
adverse pressure gradient
adversely
adverseness
adversities
adversity
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WORDS THAT END LIKE ADVERSARIES

accessories
anniversaries
beneficiaries
binaries
boundaries
canaries
commentaries
diaries
dictionaries
documentaries
itineraries
libraries
mercenaries
missionaries
obituaries
ovaries
salaries
secretaries
subsidiaries
summaries
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Synonyms and antonyms of adversaries in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ADVERSARIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «adversaries» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of adversaries

Translation of «adversaries» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ADVERSARIES

Find out the translation of adversaries to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of adversaries from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «adversaries» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

对手
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

adversarios
570 millions of speakers

English

adversaries
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

शत्रुओं
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الخصوم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

противники
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

adversários
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রতিপক্ষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

adversaires
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Musuh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Gegner
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

敵
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

적
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Musuh
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đối thủ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எதிரிகளை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विरोधक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

düşmanlar
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

avversari
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przeciwnicy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

противники
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

adversarii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αντιπάλους
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

teenstanders
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

motståndare
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

motstandere
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of adversaries

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ADVERSARIES»

The term «adversaries» is quite widely used and occupies the 46.120 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ADVERSARIES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about adversaries

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10 QUOTES WITH «ADVERSARIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word adversaries.
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Richard V. Allen
Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.
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Bruce Babbitt
Well, it's not a pleasant experience. And it's a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.
3
Haley Barbour
I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.
4
Dennis C. Blair
In addition to anti-American terrorists with global reach, our adversaries include organizations - some nation states, some private and some criminal - that proliferate weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them.
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Friedrich Engels
The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.
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Robert M. Gates
One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries.
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Annie Jacobsen
With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.
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Walter Martin
However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.
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Ludwig von Mises
Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.
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Evo Morales
Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ADVERSARIES»

Discover the use of adversaries in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to adversaries and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Neighborly Adversaries: Readings in U.S.-Latin American ...
Methodologically interdisciplinary, yet comparative and historical in organization and structure, this collection will benefit students and specialists of Latin America's complex historical, social, and political relationship with its ...
Michael J. LaRosa, Frank O. Mora, 2007
2
Adversaries of Dance: From the Puritans to the Present
In Adversaries of Dance, Ann Wagner presents a major study of opposition to dance over a period of four centuries in what is now the United States.
Ann Louise Wagner, 1997
3
Ethics for Adversaries: The Morality of Roles in Public and ...
Ethics for Adversaries is a philosophical inquiry into arguments that are offered to defend seemingly wrongful actions performed by those who occupy what Montaigne called "necessary offices.
Arthur Isak Applbaum, 2000
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Allies, Adversaries, and International Trade
In this book, Joanne Gowa examines the logic behind this linkage between alliances and trade and asks whether it applies not only after but also before World War II. Gowa's analysis of a simple game-theoretic model of trade in an anarchic ...
Joanne Gowa, 1995
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Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, ...
This book provides a new analysis of why relations between the United States and the Chinese Communists were so hostile in the first decade of the Cold War.
Thomas J. Christensen, 1996
6
America's Military Adversaries: From Colonial Times to the ...
From Filipino guerilla leader Emilio Aguinaldo to British naval officer James Lucas Yeo, 223 entries offer biographical information on people who have taken up arms against the United States government.
John C. Fredriksen, 2001
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The Normans and Their Adversaries at War: Essays in Memory ...
Studies of warfare, armies, logistics and weapons throughout the Norman realms.
Richard Philip Abels, Bernard S. Bachrach, 2001
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Allies and Adversaries: The Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Grand ...
During World War II the uniformed heads of the U.S. armed services assumed a pivotal and unprecedented role in the formulation of the nation's foreign policies.
Mark A. Stoler, 2003
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Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations Into Ancient ...
This book examines the reasons why science and philosophy developed differently in ancient Greece and ancient China.
Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, 1996
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A Discourse on Property: John Locke and His Adversaries
In this book James Tully uses an hermeneutical and analytical approach to offer a revolutionary revision of early modern theories of property, focusing particularly on that of Locke.
James Tully, 1982

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ADVERSARIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term adversaries is used in the context of the following news items.
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Studies Majors: Higher Education's New Special Ed
In other words, gay people aren't mentally ill, but their political adversaries are mentally ill; all of them need psychological help. Maybe you ... «Town Hall, Jul 15»
2
A Werewolf-Fighting Executive Is So Crazy It Just Works
... in you can unlock special powers and skills in order to help heal your character or hurt the odd procession of animal-based adversaries. «Kotaku, Jul 15»
3
Carter and Obama: How to Fail at Foreign Policy
Obama's failures reflect the same abiding sin that wrecked Carter's foreign policy: assuming that our adversaries think as we do, and so respect ... «FrontPage Magazine, Jul 15»
4
Review: 'In Defense of Freedom'
The stories in this unique book are about men who went face to face with their adversaries, who saw their buddies die, who crashed planes, ... «Jackson Clarion Ledger, Jul 15»
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Peter Schweizer: Deleted Hillary Emails Probably Relate to 'Clinton …
... why do you think that political adversaries of Hillary, particularly the 2016 presidential candidates–why do you think they haven't taken action, ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
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Strong and persevering
... the symbolic Cuban one but together with it opening the way towards reconciliation with two of the US's principal international adversaries. «Irish Times, Jul 15»
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Boozman gives GOP weekly address, Cotton critical of Cuban …
Yet we continue to reward them with unearned concessions, weakening our hand against our adversaries around the world. What kind of ... «The City Wire, Jul 15»
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Erickson: Don't expect budget impasse to end soon
His adversaries, however, are Democrats who have long represented constituencies that vehemently oppose most of these ideas. Democratic ... «Bloomington Pantagraph, Jul 15»
9
NIPER sold patent to company for peanuts
NIPER director KK Bhutani denied the allegations and said his adversaries were levelling the accusations to malign his image. "Unscientific ... «India Today, Jul 15»
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Thakur's 'phone tapping' records leaked to the media
The minister, in other conversation, can be heard discussing his adversaries, and also ticket allotment. He can be heard talking about a CD ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»

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