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friend

[ frend ]

noun

  1. a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.

    Synonyms: , , ,

    Antonyms: ,

  2. a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter

    friends of the Boston Symphony.

    Synonyms: ,

  3. a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile:

    Who goes there? Friend or foe?

  4. a member of the same nation, party, etc.

    Synonyms: , , ,

    Antonyms: ,

  5. Friend, a member of the Society of Friends; a Quaker:

    The religious practices of Friends are founded in direct communion with God.

  6. a person associated with another as a contact on a social media website:

    We've never met, but we're Facebook friends.



verb (used with object)

  1. Rare. to befriend.
  2. to add (a person) to one's list of contacts on a social media website:

    I just friended a couple of guys in my class.

friend

1

/ ڰɛԻ /

noun

  1. a person known well to another and regarded with liking, affection, and loyalty; an intimate
  2. an acquaintance or associate
  3. an ally in a fight or cause; supporter
  4. a fellow member of a party, society, etc
  5. a patron or supporter

    a friend of the opera

  6. be friends
    to be friendly (with)
  7. make friends
    to become friendly (with)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr an archaic word for befriend
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Friend

2

/ ڰɛԻ /

noun

  1. a member of the Religious Society of Friends; Quaker
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Friend

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/ ڰɛԻ /

noun

  1. mountaineering a device consisting of a shaft with double-headed spring-loaded cams that can be wedged in a crack to provide an anchor point
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈڰԻ󾱱, noun
  • ˈڰԻ, adjective
  • ˈڰԻness, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ڰԻ· adjective
  • ڰԻ··ness noun
  • ԴDz·ڰԻ noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of friend1

First recorded before 900; Middle English friend, frend, Old English ڰŧDzԻ “friend, lover, relative” (cognate with Old Saxon friund, Old High German friunt ( German Freund ), Gothic ڰōԻ ), originally the present participle of ڰŧDz, cognate with Gothic ڰō “to love”
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of friend1

Old English ڰŧDzԻ ; related to Old Saxon friund , Old Norse ڰǣԻ徱 , Gothic ڰōԻ , Old High German friunt
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Idioms and Phrases

  1. make friends with, to enter into friendly relations with; become a friend to.

More idioms and phrases containing friend

In addition to the idiom beginning with friend , also see fair-weather friend ; make friends .
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Example Sentences

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But when Totone learns that his region’s Gruyère-like specialty can land a 30,000-euro payday from a contest, he’s spurred, with his friends’ help, to revive his family’s operation and make a prizewinning Comté cheese.

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Hartvigsen saw that the problem and the thirst for investing knowledge and a supportive community was much bigger than just her and her group of friends.

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Plenty of his friends – fellow journalists - have already removed themselves, leaving Turkey because they faced charges or feared they would.

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While cleaning and fixing the place up, he’s had help from his parents’ construction company, friends and community members.

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When friends questioned the wisdom of planting a garden that may be destroyed to make way for real estate development, Horvitz brushed concerns aside.

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How Do You Spell Friend?

Spelling tips for friend

The word friend is hard to spell for two reasons. First, it sounds like [ frend ], making it easy to miss the i. Second, even if you know there is an i, it can be difficult to remember the order of the i and the e.

How to spell friend: To remember that friend has an i in it, think of the phrase “I see my friends on Friday.” Both friend and Friday begin fri-. If you remember that friend has an i in it, but just can’t remember where it goes, keep in mind the classic mnemonic device “I before E, except after C.”

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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