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de
1[ duh; French duh; Spanish de; Portuguese di ]
preposition
- from; of (used in French, Spanish, and Portuguese personal names, originally to indicate place of origin):
Comte de Rochambeau; Don Ricardo de Aragón.
DE
2abbreviation for
- Delaware (approved especially for use with zip code).
de'
3[ duh; Italian de ]
preposition
- dei (used in Italian names as an elided form of dei ):
de' Medici.
de-
4D.E.
5abbreviation for
- Doctor of Engineering.
- driver education.
de
1the internet domain name for
- Germany
de
2/ də /
(no translation)
- of; from: occurring as part of some personal names and originally indicating place of origin
de la Mare
Simon de Montfort
D'Arcy
DE
3abbreviation for
- (formerly in Britain) Department of Employment
- Delaware
de-
4prefix forming verbs and verbal derivatives
- removal of or from something specified
dethrone
deforest
- reversal of something
decode
decompose
desegregate
- departure from
decamp
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Word History and Origins
Origin of de1
From French, Portuguese, Spanish, from Latin dē
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Word History and Origins
Origin of de1
from Latin dē; see de-
Origin of de2
from Latin, from dē (prep) from, away from, out of, etc. In compound words of Latin origin, de- also means away, away from ( decease ); down ( degrade ); reversal ( detect ); removal ( defoliate ); and is used intensively ( devote ) and pejoratively ( detest )
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Example Sentences
He worked for a hedge fund, D.E. Shaw, where he made a ton of money.
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Summers had a brief, lucrative part-time gig last decade at hedge fund D.E. Shaw.
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In 1994, Bezos took his wife, left a cushy job as vice president of hedge fund D.E. Shaw, and went west.
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