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doe

/dəʊ/US/doʊ/

doe noun: a female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used). Also the obsolete spelling of do.

Noun (1)

doe (countable and uncountable, plural doe or does)

  1. 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.1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Grace Notes.] Two Look at Two.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 95
    • The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park.2024 July 23, Lilit Marcus, “Japan may be sick of mass tourism. But the deer in this ancient UNESCO-listed city love it”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    hind
  2. (specifically) A female fallow deer.
  3. A female rabbit or hare.
  4. A female squirrel.
  5. A female kangaroo.
    Synonyms:
    blue flyer

Noun (2) capitalized: DOE

DOE (countable and uncountable, plural DOEs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Design Of Experiments.

Verb capitalized: DOE

DOE

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of depends on experience.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: DOE

DOE

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Dictionary of Old English.
  2. (Philippines, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Department of Energy.
  3. (US, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Department of Energy.
    • The DOE and EPA have tried to keep everyone happy with the final rules.2024 March 20, Jonathan M. Gitlin, “New EPA, DOE fuel regs give automakers longer to reduce CO₂ emissions”, in Ars Technica
  4. (US, abbreviation, 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...2024 November 14, Lauren del Valle, “After suicide of nonbinary teen, DOE finds multiple Title IX violations at Oklahoma school district”, in CNN
    Synonyms:
    ED

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Doe

Doe (plural Does)

  1. 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 2000.2024 December 14, Elizabeth Wagmeister, “Jay-Z says inconsistencies in rape accuser’s story proves her attorney was looking for ‘money and fame’”, in CNN

Also used as

doe is also the obsolete spelling of do.

doe is also the pronunciation spelling of though.

doe meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Gujarati

doe in Hindi

female deer
हिरनी hirnī

doe in Urdu

ڈوے

doe in Malayalam

female deer
പേടമാന് pēṭamāṉ

doe in Gujarati

ડોએ
More languagesFewer languages
doe in Nepali
डोए
doe in Tagalog
libay
doe in Arabic
ظَبْيَة ẓabya
doe in Persian
آهو ماده âhu-ye mâde
doe in Myanmar
သမင်မ sa.mangma.

Examples of doe in a sentence

  • We used chamber-pots a good deal – ‘jerries’ – cause of much hilarity doe to the hostilities.
  • Doe raises the necessary money for its residents' wages; the city provides the money for "three hots and a cot".
  • No, I'm sorry, I don't love you I love Alisha and you shouldn't keep making doe eyes at me either.

All 13 example sentences with doe

Synonyms of doe

Forms of doe

Noun
pluraldoe
pluraldoes
pluralDOEs
Verb
third-person singular presentdoes
present participledoing
present participledoth
pastdid
pastdidde
past participledone
Proper noun
pluralDoes

Plural of doe: doe or does

Origin of doe

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.

* 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.

Words formed from doe

Phrases with doe

Words that rhyme with doe

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Questions about doe

What does doe mean?
Doe means a female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used).
What is doe in Hindi?
Doe in Hindi is हिरनी (hirnī). See Doe meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is doe?
Doe can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce doe?
Doe is pronounced /dəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of doe?
The plural of doe is doe.

Words near doe in the dictionary

  1. Dodsworths
  2. Dodwell
  3. Dodwellian
  4. Dodwells
  5. Dodworth
  6. doe
  7. doe eyes
  8. Doe Lea
  9. doe parties
  10. doe party
  11. doe-eyed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: doe (page history and authors); DOE (page history and authors); Doe (page history and authors); doe (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doe (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); doe (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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