dux
/dʌks
/noun (plural duces /ˈdjuːsiːz/) chiefly Scottish
The top pupil in a school or class.He was himself a pupil at the school and a former dux....
- In 1913 he graduated from the grammar school being dux of the school and winning the gold medal.
- Now dux of St. Aloyisius College, it meant any career was open to you.
Origin
Mid 18th century (denoting the leading voice or instrument in a fugue or canon): from Latin, 'leader'.
Rhymes
- be carved on tablets of stone
- be cast away
- be cast down
- be cast in a —— mould
- be caught (or taken) short
- because
- because of
- beccafico
- bechance
- Bechdel test
- Bechstein
- Bechuanaland
- beck
- Beckenbauer, Franz
- Becker, Boris
- becket
- Becket, St Thomas à
- Beckettian
- Beckett, Samuel
- Beckford, William
- Beckham, David
- Beckmann, Ernst Otto
- Beckmann, Max
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- significatively