due
Meaning of due
noun
- Deserved acknowledgment.
Give him his due — he is a good actor.
- (in plural dues) A membership fee.
- 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.
- Right; just title or claim.
- Owed or owing.
He can wait for the amount due him.
- Appropriate.
With all due respect, you're wrong about that.
- Scheduled; expected.
Rain is due this afternoon.
- Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time.
The baby is just about due.
- Owing; ascribable, as to a cause.
The dangerously low water table is due to rapidly growing pumping.
- On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass
The town is 5 miles due North of the bridge.
- (used with compass directions) Directly; exactly.
The river runs due north for about a mile.
Information about due
- The plural form of due is: dues.
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Hyphenation of due
due
- It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
- due is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
due synonyms
Meaning owed:
Meaning :
needed, owing, required, expected, forecast
Translation of due
- German: fällig
- Spanish: vencedero, vencedera, perecedero, perecedera
- French: échéant
- Portuguese: expirado, vencido
Words that rhyme with due
Ladue, presubdue, subdue, redue, orsedue, residue, endue, vendue, indue, reindue, superindue, condue, fondue, measondue, undue, overdue, perdue, Purdue
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