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Hostile

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ˈhɒstaɪl

Definitions

An enemy.

in-plural

Equivalents

24 more languages
العربيةمعادي
Беларускаяваро́жы
Catalàhostil
Ελληνικάεχθρικός
עבריתעוין
Қазақ тіліғадауатты
Македонскинепријателски
Nederlandsvijandig
Polskiwrogi
Portuguêshostil
Românăostil
Slovenčinanepriateľský
Svenskafientlig
Українськаворожий

Examples

The Japanese got their attack in first. About ten minutes after passing the U.S. aircraft, they spotted Hornet (local weather patterns temporarily concealing Enterprise). Things had improved a little bit compared to the Eastern Solomons, and three dozen F4F Wildcats on combat air patrol were vectored onto the oncoming hostiles, but once that initial task was accomplished, things began to collapse back into the cacophony and chaos that was all too familiar to those aboard the Enterprise, meaning that the end result was round about the same[…]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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