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dux

/duhks, dooks/US // dʌks, dʊks //UK // (dʌks) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural du·ces [doo-seez, dyoo-, doo-keys], /ˈdu siz, ˈdyu-, ˈdu keɪs/, dux·es [duhk-siz, dook-]. /ˈdʌk sɪz, ˈdʊk-/.

    • : British. the pupil who is academically first in a class or school.
    • : a military chief commanding the troops in a frontier province.

Examples

  • At last the teacher asked where Sheffield was, and was answered; it was then pointed to by the dux, as a dot on a skeleton map.

  • Nullus eum prohibeat, non rex, non dux, nec ulla persona habeat potestatem prohibendi ei.

  • He accepted, and for the fourteen remaining years of his life lived at Dux, where he wrote his Memoirs.

  • My progress at school was so rapid during four or five months that the master promoted me to the rank of dux.

  • "Harry's, when you were made dux," whispered Ethel to her brother.