FOX
Dictionary entry overview: What does Fox mean?
• FOX (noun)
The noun FOX has 7 senses:
1. alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs
2. a shifty deceptive person
3. the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox
4. English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806)
5. English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691)
6. a member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River
7. the Algonquian language of the Fox
Familiarity information: FOX used as a noun is common.
• FOX (verb)
The verb FOX has 3 senses:
1. deceive somebody
2. be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
3. become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots
Familiarity information: FOX used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• FOX (noun)
Meaning:
Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("fox" is a kind of...):
canid; canine (any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fox"):
Reynard (a conventional name for a fox used in tales following usage in the old epic 'Reynard the Fox')
gray fox; grey fox; Urocyon cinereoargenteus (dark grey American fox; from Central America through southern United States)
Alopex lagopus; arctic fox; white fox (thickly-furred fox of Arctic regions; brownish in summer and white in winter)
kit fox; Vulpes macrotis (small grey fox of southwestern United States; may be a subspecies of Vulpes velox)
kit fox; prairie fox; Vulpes velox (small grey fox of the plains of western North America)
red fox; Vulpes fulva (New World fox; often considered the same species las the Old World fox)
red fox; Vulpes vulpes (the common Old World fox; having reddish-brown fur; commonly considered a single circumpolar species)
Meaning:
A shifty deceptive person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
dodger; slyboots; fox
Hypernyms ("fox" is a kind of...):
beguiler; cheat; cheater; deceiver; slicker; trickster (someone who leads you to believe something that is not true)
Meaning:
The grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("fox" is a kind of...):
fur; pelt (the dressed hairy coat of a mammal)
Meaning:
English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Charles James Fox; Fox
Instance hypernyms:
national leader; solon; statesman (a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs)
Meaning:
English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
George Fox; Fox
Instance hypernyms:
religious person (a person who manifests devotion to a deity)
Meaning:
A member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Fox" is a kind of...):
Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)
Meaning:
The Algonquian language of the Fox
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Fox" is a kind of...):
Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)
• FOX (verb)
Meaning:
Deceive somebody
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
pull a fast one on; play a trick on; fox; fob; flim-flam; trick
Context example:
We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week
Hypernyms (to "fox" is one way to...):
cozen; deceive; delude; lead on (be false to; be dishonest with)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fox"):
snooker (fool or dupe)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
confound; befuddle; bedevil; confuse; discombobulate; fox; fuddle; throw
Context examples:
These questions confuse even the experts / This question completely threw me / This question befuddled even the teacher
Hypernyms (to "fox" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fox"):
demoralize (confuse or put into disorder)
amaze; baffle; beat; bewilder; dumbfound; flummox; get; gravel; mystify; nonplus; perplex; pose; puzzle; stick; stupefy; vex (be a mystery or bewildering to)
disorient; disorientate (cause to be lost or disoriented)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "fox" is one way to...):
spot (become spotted)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
