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dux
[ duhks, dooks ]
noun
, plural du·ces [doo, -seez, dyoo, -, doo, -keys], dux·es [duhk, -siz, dook, -].
- British. the pupil who is academically first in a class or school.
- (in the later Roman Empire) a military chief commanding the troops in a frontier province.
dux
/ dʌks /
noun
- (in Scottish and certain other schools) the top pupil in a class or school
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dux1
1800–10; < Latin: literally, leader, noun derivative from base of dūcere to lead
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dux1
Latin: leader
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Example Sentences
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.
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Nullus eum prohibeat, non rex, non dux, nec ulla persona habeat potestatem prohibendi ei.
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He accepted, and for the fourteen remaining years of his life lived at Dux, where he wrote his Memoirs.
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My progress at school was so rapid during four or five months that the master promoted me to the rank of dux.
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"Harry's, when you were made dux," whispered Ethel to her brother.
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