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de

  [duh; Fr. duh; Sp. de; Port. di]
Use de in a Sentence
–preposition
from; of (used in French, Spanish, and Portuguese personal names, originally to indicate place of origin): Comte de Rochambeau; Don Ricardo de Aragón.
Origin:
< F, Sp, Pg < L dē

de-

 
a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), intensity (decompound). Compare di- 2 , dis- 1 .
Origin:
ME < L dē-, prefixal use of dē (prep.) from, away from, of, out of; in some words, < F < L dē- or dis- dis- 1

DE

 
1. Delaware (approved esp. for use with zip code).
2. destroyer escort.

de'

  [duh; It. de]
–preposition
dei (used in Italian names as an elided form of dei): de' Medici.

D.E.

 
1. Doctor of Engineering.
2. driver education.
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abbr.  Delaware
Del·a·ware 2   (děl'ə-wâr')   
A state of the eastern United States on the Atlantic Ocean. It was admitted as the first of the original Thirteen Colonies in 1787. Settled by the Dutch in 1631 and by Swedes in 1638, the region passed to England in 1664. It was part of William Penn's Pennsylvania grant from 1682 until 1776. Dover is the capital and Wilmington the largest city. Population: 865,000.
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de 
L. adv. and prep. meaning "down from, off, concerning." Used as a prefix in Eng., as in defrost (1895), defuse (1943), decaffeination (1927), etc. Usually felt as meaning "down," but in L. it could also be completive in intensive (cf. demerit), perhaps with a sense of "down to the bottom, totally." Also in de facto "in fact" (1602), which is usually contrasted with de jure "of right, according to law" (1611), both now used as adjs. in Eng.
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Language Translation for : de
Spanish: por; al, a la,
German: pro,
Japanese: ～につき
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de networking
The country code for Germany.
(1999-01-27)

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de
German
DE
  1. defensive end
  2. Delaware
  3. Doctor of Engineering
  4. donor eggs
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