adversary

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An opponent or rival.

   He prepared to fight his adversary.

2. 2
   name

   The Devil; Satan.

   Yahweh′s turning Gog around, putting hooks in his jaws, and bringing him out from the remotest parts of the north (Ezek. 38:4-6) is now interpreted as the release of the Adversary from prison.

3. 3
   noun

   someone who offers opposition

Etymology

From Middle English adversarie, from Anglo-Norman aversaire (in Wace's Life of Saint Margaret) and Old French aversier, aversaire (French adversaire), from Latin adversārius, from adversus (“turned toward”).