due

From Middle English dewe, dew, due, from Old French deü (“due”), past participle of devoir (“to owe”), from Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“I owe”), from dē- (“from”) +‎ habeō (“I have”).

• (UK) enPR: dyo͞o, jo͞o, IPA^(key): /djuː/, /dʒuː/
  • Homophone: dew
• (US) enPR: do͞o, IPA^(key): /du/
  • Homophones: dew, do, doo

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• (General Australian, General New Zealand) enPR: jo͞o, IPA^(key): /dʒʉː/
  • Homophones: dew, Jew
• Rhymes: -uː

due (comparative more due, superlative most due)

1. Owed or owing.

   He is due four weeks of back pay.

   The amount due is just three quid.

   The due bills total nearly seven thousand dollars.

   He can wait for the amount due him.

2. Appropriate.

   With all due respect, you're wrong about that.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Gray

     With dirges due, in sad array, / Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne.

3. Scheduled; expected.

   Rain is due this afternoon.

   The train is due in five minutes.

   When is your baby due?

4. Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.

   The baby is just about due.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎:

     The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.

5. Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.

   The dangerously low water table is due to rapidly growing pumping.

   • (Can we date this quote?) J. D. Forbes

     This effect is due to the attraction of the sun.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 2, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎:

     Mother […] considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom, from which every Kensingtonian held aloof, except on the conventional tip-and-run excursions in pursuit of shopping, tea and theatres.

6. On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass

   The town is 5 miles due North of the bridge.

• (owed or owing): needed, owing, to be made, required
• (scheduled, expected): expected, forecast
• (having reached the scheduled or natural time): expected

due (comparative more due, superlative most due)

1. (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly.

   The river runs due north for about a mile.

due (plural dues)

1. Deserved acknowledgment.

   Give him his due — he is a good actor.

   • 2015 January 31, Daniel Taylor, “David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked”, in The Guardian (London)‎:

     Chelsea, to give them their due, did start to cut out the defensive lapses as the game went on but they needed to because their opponents were throwing everything at them in those stages and, if anything, seemed encouraged by the message that Mourinho’s Rémy-Cahill switch sent out.

2. (in plural dues) A membership fee.
3. That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     He will give the devil his due.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Tennyson

     Yearly little dues of wheat, and wine, and oil.

4. Right; just title or claim.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     The key of this infernal pit by due […] I keep.

• give someone his due
• give the devil his due

• due in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• due in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• due at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Deu., edu

From Old Norse dúfa, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ. Compare Norwegian Bokmål due, Swedish duva, Icelandic dúfa, West Frisian do, German Low German Duuv, Dutch duif, German Taube, English dove.

• IPA^(key): /duːə/, [ˈd̥uːə], [ˈd̥uːu]

due c (singular definite duen, plural indefinite duer)

1. pigeon
2. dove

du + -e

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due

1. secondly

• IPA^(key): /dy/

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due

1. feminine singular of the past participle of devoir

From du (“two”) +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdu̯e/

due

1. both

   Synonym: ambe (neologism)

From Latin duae, feminine plural of duo, from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdu.e/, [ˈd̪uːe]
• Hyphenation: dù‧e

due

1. two

due m or f (invariable)

1. two

due m (invariable)

1. two

due f pl

1. (following the article le) two o'clock (a.m. or p.m.)

   Sono le due. ― It's two o'clock.

Playing cards in Italian · carte da gioco (layout · text)
asso	due	tre	quattro	cinque	sei	sette
otto	nove	dieci	fante	donna, regina	re	jolly, joker, matta

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due

1. Alternative form of dewe (“due”)

due

1. Alternative form of dewe (“due”)

From Old Norse dúfa, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ. Compare Danish due, Swedish duva, Icelandic dúfa, Dutch duif, German Taube, English dove.

due f or m (definite singular dua or duen, indefinite plural duer, definite plural duene)

1. dove, pigeon, culver (bird)

• duestegg

• hanndue
• hunndue
• leirdue
• ringdue

• “due” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse dúfa, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ. Compare Danish due, Swedish duva, Icelandic dúfa, Dutch duif, German Taube, English dove.

• IPA^(key): /²dʉːə/

due f (definite singular dua, indefinite plural duer, definite plural duene)

1. a bird of the family Columbidae, the pigeons and doves.

• “due” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Common contraction of du (“you (sing.)”) and e, colloquial pronunciation spelling of är (“are”).

due

1. (nonstandard, text messaging, Internet slang) ur, you're, you are

   due fett fin asså ― ur really good-looking y'know

   ja venne om due på ― I dunno if ur in