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Doe

//doʊ// adv, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    though Multicultural-London-English, not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Dictionary of Old English. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. 2
    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."

  3. 3
    Initialism of Department of Energy. Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 4
    Initialism of Department of Energy. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "The DOE and EPA have tried to keep everyone happy with the final rules."

  5. 5
    Initialism of Department of Education. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, proscribed

    "“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."

Noun
  1. 1
    A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used). countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Initialism of Design Of Experiments. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  3. 3
    mature female of mammals of which the male is called ‘buck’ wordnet
  4. 4
    A female fallow deer. countable, specifically, uncountable
  5. 5
    the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977 wordnet
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  1. 6
    A female rabbit or hare. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A female squirrel. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A female kangaroo. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    Obsolete spelling of do. alt-of, obsolete

    "As salutations, reverences, or conges, by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous[…]."

  2. 2
    Initialism of depends on experience. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

* As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun doe. * As a Norman surname, from Old French d' Eu, from Eu, Seine-Maritime. That city's name could be from Frankish *auwju (“island, water meadow”) or otherwise a reduction of Latin Augusta.

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