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[d_ˈə], [dˈə], [dˈə]
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Definitions of de

  1.   A prefix from Latin de down, from, away; as in debark, decline, decease, deduct, decamp. In words from the French it is equivalent to Latin dis- apart, away; or sometimes to de. Cf. Dis-. It is negative and opposite in derange, deform, destroy, etc. It is intensive in deprave, despoil, declare, desolate, etc.
  2.   From; down; out; used with privative, intensive, or completive force; as, deface, degrade, derave, derail. In some words it is equivalent to Dis.
  3.   A prefix carrying often a privative or negative sense; denoting away from, cessation; it has sometimes an intensive force.
  4.   A moving down or from; separation or taking away: de often expresses a negative, and sometimes only augments the sense: de has the force of dis, asunder, as in derange, depart.
  5.   Latin prefix signifying down or away from. It sometimes negatives and sometimes intensifles the sense. It has often the force of dis in words through the French.
  6.   a Mid- Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

Quotes of de

  1. What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for. – Poul Anderson
  2. Every year thousands of Americans mistakenly refer to Cinco de Mayo as Mexico's Independence Day. – Joe Baca
  3. Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough. – Tom Berenger
  4. On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me. – Catherine Deneuve
  5. Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de -humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship. – William Glasser
  6. I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies. – Lawrence Kasdan
  7. A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb? – Rudolf Nureyev
  8. To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. – Pablo Picasso
  9. It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de -lovely. – Cole Porter
  10. Don't think of yourself as indispensable or infallible. As Charles De Gaulle said, the cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men. – Donald Rumsfeld
  11. John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush. – Mark Shields
  12. But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street. – Mink Stole
  13. I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France. – John Tesh
  14. For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de -humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. – Steven Wright

Usage examples for de

  1. “ Is the Countess de Vassart to go with us? ” – The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
  2. “ De Launay was silent. ” – Temporal Power by Marie Corelli
  3. “ De pizen's draw'd out and clean gone. ” – Sally Dows and Other Stories by Bret Harte
  4. “ An' de Marster's face! ” – The Coast of Bohemia by Thomas Nelson Page
  5. “ That was my uncle, Monsieur de Beausejour. ” – The Complete PG Edition of The Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill
  6. “ " Well, we had to take care of her too," De Bergillac said. ” – A Maker of History by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  7. “ De animals not talk. ” – Show Business by William C. Boyd Lyle G. Boyd
  8. “ M. de Villequier may be gone to- morrow. ” – Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
  9. “ Since the first visit to de Baudricourt by the Maid of Domremy, her name had become familiar to many of the people in and about Vaucouleurs. ” – Joan of Arc by Ronald Sutherland Gower
  10. “ But de oberseer he done took it away from me, an' dat's de way you find out what sort of a man he is. ” – Marcy The Blockade Runner by Harry Castlemon
  11. “ Yes; in Father de Casson's care. ” – The Road to Frontenac by Samuel Merwin
  12. “ The learned Marquis de Condorcet had become the president of it. ” – The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I by Thomas Clarkson
  13. “ He had observed her giving way before the Duchesse d'Etampes, her father- in- law's mistress; giving way before the Duchesse de Valentinois, the mistress of her husband the late king. ” – Catherine de' Medici by Honore de Balzac
  14. “ But, mademoiselle- pour l'amour de Dieu! ” – The Belovéd Traitor by Frank L. Packard
  15. “ She can be de astralized and friend Handlon can have her body. ” – Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 by Various
  16. “ Francie remembered now- she had forgotten it- Margaret de Cliche's having told her she meant to come again. ” – The Reverberator by Henry James
  17. “ De whole possetucky on 'em sit an' listen. ” – The Two Vanrevels by Booth Tarkington
  18. “ Madame de Malrive cut the explanation short. ” – Madame de Treymes by Edith Wharton
  19. “ And did Monsieur de Perche call me fool when he wrote to you? ” – The Justice of the King by Hamilton Drummond
  20. “ " But now go to Madame de Montesquiou, sire," said the emperor. ” – NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER by L. Muhlbach

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