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dux

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3 lettersPronunciation /dʌks/Sorted duxStarts with DEnds with X0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. The top-ranking student in a school or class.

Word origin

Borrowed from Latin dux (“leader”). Doublet of doge, duc, duce, and duke.

Used in a sentence

  • This school was where my father had been dux in his senior year in 1937 just as his father had been dux at the Rockhampton Grammar School²⁷ before the turn of the 19th century.
  • Quite a few who became national athletic champions were also duxes or top academic pupils at their schools.

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