doe

Definition of doe

14 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, uncountable)A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used).

“A doe from round a spruce stood looking at them Across the wall, as near the wall as they. She saw them in their field, they her in hers.”
“The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park.”

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noun

(countable, uncountable)A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used).

“A doe from round a spruce stood looking at them Across the wall, as near the wall as they. She saw them in their field, they her in hers.”
“The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park.”
(countable, specifically, uncountable)A female fallow deer.
(countable, uncountable)A female rabbit or hare.
(countable, uncountable)A female squirrel.
(countable, uncountable)A female kangaroo.
(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of Design Of Experiments.

verb

(alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete spelling of do.

“As salutations, reverences, or conges, by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous[…].”
“[…] a voyage to plant yͤ first colonie in yͤ Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in yͤ presence of God […]”
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of depends on experience.

adv

(Multicultural-London-English, not-comparable)though

name

(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Dictionary of Old English.
(Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Department of Energy.
(US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Department of Energy.

“The DOE and EPA have tried to keep everyone happy with the final rules.”
(US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, proscribed)Initialism of Department of Education.

““As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately indifferent to students’ civil rights,” a news release from DOE reads.”
A surname of English origin.

“In the amended complaint, Carter is accused of raping the then-13-year-old Jane Doe at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in the year 2000.”

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Etymology

From Middle English do (“(female) fallow deer”), from Old English dā, from Proto-West Germanic *daihā (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”). Cognate with Middle…

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From Middle English do (“(female) fallow deer”), from Old English dā, from Proto-West Germanic *daihā (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”). Cognate with Middle Scots da, dae (“female fallow deer”), Danish då (“fallow deer”), Sanskrit धेनु (dhenú, “cow, milk-cow”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”), Old English delu (“teat”). Related also to female, filial, fetus.

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