Dux

Word DUX
Character 3
Hyphenation dux
Pronunciations /dʌks/

Definitions and meanings of "Dux"

What do we mean by dux?

The top (male or female) academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline.

A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion.

The subject of a fugue, answered by the comes.

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The word "dux" in example sentences

By comparison, the mantle of the giant squid, Architeuthis dux, is not known to attain more than 2.25 metres. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Tacitus [103] styles Vespasian dux, which is not a strictly official title, but exactly describes his actual duty. ❋ 1851-1939 (1898)

Byzantium, Gaeta had then, like Naples and Amalfi, a republican form of government under a "dux" or lord. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

A Duke is a "dux" or "leader;" the flying wedge of cranes is under a "ducal monarch" -- a very different personage from a queen bee. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

"from someone considered a dictator" - hehe. yes, there's so much malignity in italy, poor mussolini. and people have always ignored that "dux" was referred to his horse ... well friends - do you need a joke teller to revive some events or enlighten some party? we have a prime minister available. in tour now, great success in paris. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Tom Compson Trumble went to school at Brighton Grammar School, metriculated at the very early age of sixteen, and was dux of the school. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Scolese would be Griffin re-dux: the self-absorbed "I'm the smartest guy in the room" technical type, except more Machiavellian with less hard technical skill. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Grab the dux and dawg at noon and head for the houseboat and the Propane fireplace. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In the Apologus to his translation of Plato's De regno, dedicated to Montefeltro on 6 January 1482, Marsilio Ficino plays on the duke's name, describing in a witticism that Federico was known as "a fide regia fideregum" and "ab orbis imperio Orbinatem ducem" by superior intelligences and as "Federicus Urbinas dux" by men. 137 ❋ Unknown (2008)

To some ancient observers such women epitomized an aberrant category of female described in Roman literature as a dux femina a woman general, an oxymoron of a title that implied an unnatural combination of male and female characteristics. ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)

During the following summer Sadun, the dux of Barcelona, was persuaded by someone whom he thought his friend to go to Narbonne, He was seized, taken to king Louis and then taken on to his father Charles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, Thrasco, dux of the Abodrites, after he had given his son as a hostage to Godfred as the king required, gathered a force of his countrymen together and, with help from the Saxons, attacked his neighbours, the Wiltzites; he laid their territory waste with fire and sword and returned home with immense booty. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But when the dux who commanded the fleet, a man called Paul, endeavoured to negotiate with the lord Pippin, king of Italy, about establishing peace between Franks and Greeks - acting as if he had been charged to do this - all his initiatives were impeded by Willeri and Beatus, the dukes of Venetia, who even concocted plots against him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Colossal squid, which are found deep in Antarctic waters, are thought to be about the same length as giant squid (Architeutis dux) but are much heavier ... ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sweet F. A. So everything devolves into some half-assed "Having a wonderful time, wish you were here" re-dux? ❋ Hyperdave (2009)

Mors et vita duello conflixere mirando: dux vitae mortuus, regnat vivus. ❋ Elena Maria Vidal (2009)

*Taypity taypity taypity with ducky tape wiv pictures of liddol dux on it ❋ Unknown (2009)

Akshoolee. . . if wun haz DOWN cumferterz, tehn wun DUZ hav dux fur coverz – in a kwyet sort ov way. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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