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noun

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

a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter: friends of the Boston Symphony.

a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile: Who goes there? Friend or foe?

a member of the same nation, party, etc.

(initial capital letter) a member of the Religious Society of Friends; a Quaker.

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a person associated with another as a contact on a social-networking Web site: We've never met, but we're Facebook friends.

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verb (used with object)

Rare. to befriend.

to add (a person) to one's list of contacts on a social-networking Web site: I just friended a couple of guys in my class.

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

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Idiom

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

Origin:
before 900; Middle English friend, frend, Old English frēond friend, lover, relative (cognate with Old Saxon friund, Old High German friunt (German Freund), Gothic frijōnds), orig. present participle of frēogan, cognate with Gothic frijōn to love

Related forms

friend·less, adjective

friend·less·ness, noun

non·friend, noun

Synonyms
1. comrade, chum, crony, confidant. See acquaintance. 2. backer, advocate. 4. ally, associate, confrere, compatriot.

Antonyms
1, 4. enemy, foe.

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Example Sentences

One of my good friends has had a crush on a guy for several months.

Friends school students are a highly talented, highly motivated group.

The new rulers are making headway in rounding up the colonel's friends.

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One of my good friends has had a crush on a guy for several months.

Friends school students are a highly talented, highly motivated group.

The new rulers are making headway in rounding up the colonel's friends.

Help the bottlenose dolphin mother and her baby swim to their friends.

Laughter with friends releases endorphins, the brain's.

Facebook friends provide a variety of uses in ones life-some relationships are beneficial, while others are trivial.

Turn found materials and plants from friends into a charming cottage-style backyard.

Meanwhile, many of my best friends and closest business contacts aren't even in the house.

Many of my academic friends are struggling to complete projects.

There is no everlasting friends or everlasting enemies in the field of international politics.

View every photo entered, choose your own faves, then share them with family and friends.

Friends and family of people with depression may feel that their loved one has been replaced by a gloomy doppelgänger.

Entertaining friends and family is a big part of the holiday season.

Good friends and vacations don't always mix, but when they do, it can be the best of both worlds.

The days of scraping your webmail contacts to find your friends on new social networks are coming to an end.

It's certainly a lovely way to thank your friends and colleagues for being in your life.

Ambrose is remembered by his friends as a man who lived his life to the fullest.

Click through the show to see what's up with some of our circuit-centric friends.

Some friends saw us, and they ran to get more mowers.

But with everyone on the team pitching in, as well as getting help from friends and neighbors, they made a spectacular feast.

How you add friends depends on which privacy level you chose for your group.

However, many of my friends have found rather high-paying positions at market-research firms.

Time yourself and challenge your friends to solve these jigsaw puzzles created using map plates from our eighth-edition atlas.

They do not recognize friends or family members or even themselves in a mirror.

Also, my sincere condolences on the loss of your friends and band members.

It's the perfect time of year to have friends over for brunch.

Unless you can get friends in there, you won't have enough activity in your feeds to make it worth visiting.

It's hard to take disagreement from strangers, and easier to take it from friends.

Our siblings help us survive, as do our aunts, uncles and friends.

Tashi and his friends have tracked the birds closely for the past eight years.

Save some room on the grill for your veggies, your friends and family will be glad you did.

For dolphin mothers, successful parenting is as much a matter of having good friends as it is good genes.

Friends also can clash with friends and judge you by your virtual company.

Parents use social networks to gain intel on their kids' friends and on those kids' parents.

It's why my friends have to buy hats for their little girl and slather her with sunblock every time she goes outside.

The musical family uses it as a stage where their two young children and friends can put on performances.

Morrissey's death that his family and friends believe pushed him over the edge.

She would lose interest in work, friends and hobbies.

His mother helped him cover the wings with red chintz, after which a group of friends towed him into the air with a clothesline.

The lesson: next time you and three male friends are late for the movies, don't run.

When one person gains weight, close friends tend to gain.

Cat fanciers have long known that their feline friends have wild origins.

Diverse social circles lead to friends who are alike, but not necessarily closer.

Jobless people often hear this from friends and relatives, because the impulse to help is strong.

There is some interesting discussion here about making friends outside of one's age bracket.

Yet it seemed to his many friends that he must have managed it, somehow.

Time yourself and challenge your friends to solve these dinosaur jigsaw puzzles.

Kids prefer friends whose speech sounds similar to their own, regardless of race.

During this festival, the dead have divine permission to visit friends and relatives on earth.

On cool evenings, a backyard firepit is the perfect gathering spot for family and friends.

Some things to consider when buying property with friends or family members.

We live in a friendly neighborhood and know the parents of our kids' friends.

He has, he said, made many friends and had interesting experiences.

Pictures here should show the experiences of traveling and the unexpected joys of encountering the world and making new friends.

She and a group of friends were trying to think of someone's.

Invite your friends to chop, slice, and sauté?then feast.

But this time his friends say his retirement is real.

Laughing with friends releases feel-good brain chemicals, which also relieve pain, new research indicates.

Fascinating video featuring a lovely man and his beautiful spiritual relationship with his feathered friends.

Treat your friends to festive food, inventive decorations, and sparkling drinks.

My kids and all of their friends got through middle school without the issues that plagued many in my big mega middle school.

Play with your friends to see who can find the image differences fastest and earn points toward your high score.

Friends and foes of genetically modified crops warily sign a deal.

If your friends lose weight it affects you, and if your friends gain weight it affects you.

Now, my friends in a more urban area, they'll actually get together without a social crutch.

Your task is to create an advertising campaign suggesting things that you and your friends can do to prevent ozone depletion.

We could talk to friends and families with a telephone and get stock prices by calling a broker before e-mail was invented.

Make the streusel topping for this easy crisp at home and get help slicing apples from friends at the campsite.

And while people who have more friends are at higher risk, it also depends on how many friends their friends have.

Each of us and our friends and guests who visit the campus need to be confident that this is a safe and well-managed environment.

Read about baby orangutans and baby tigers making friends with each other.

Our sense of song helps us learn to talk, read and even make friends.

The trouble is, our friends keep having afterthoughts, and they write all over the margins.

Taste with a view of the barrels, or bring some friends with you for a sit-down food-and-wine tasting on the weekend.

It lets you see where your friends are on a map, and lets them track you.

Kovach spends many of his hours talking with friends and former teammates who are experiencing the long-term effects of.

Nearby, a teenage boy snapped photos of his friends with a cellphone.

Touching testaments to canine, feline, and feathered friends.

The more followers and friends you have, the more awesome and important you are.

Despite having several friends who are attending, your child might still feel isolated.

Brian's friends thought fast and sawed off a branch and started poking the snow to find him.

My family doesn't have a sugar house, but a few of my childhood friends did.

The table has been such a hit with friends that he now takes orders to build similar models on-site in his area.

MySpace's standard settings display eight favorite friends on your profile home-page.

Colleagues and friends remember him as someone who devoted his life to helping troubled adolescents and preventing suicide.

Show your poster to your family and friends and describe to them what you have drawn.

Stress reduction can be achieved by exercise, being with family and friends and meditation.

And chatting with friends at a wine garden is not a special event but a way of life.

And that the fun is best when shared with family and friends.

The ability to share downloaded games with your friends for free.

Keep in contact with your old friends and former colleagues.

Send an e-card to your friends to tell them about these vanishing cultures.

Turntablefm is an excellent service for friends who want to party and listen to music together online.

Kalam and his friends have been in regular telephone contact with their families.

We go to parties and gatherings with friends together and with our children.

Make friends outside the campus, and create service-learning courses to promote community work.

Gift annuities can be established to provide income for the benefit of loved ones and friends.

Many of us have relatives or friends who have lost work.

She was an artist, both commercial and fine, and she made many new friends and colleagues there and even found a little work.

My family and friends don't understand that reading and writing is work.

IF a marketer asked people to hand over a list of all their friends so it could show them ads, few would comply.

The national parks are places to experience the pure joy of nature with your family and friends.

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Word Origin & History

friend

O.E. freond, prp. of freogan "to love, to favor," from P.Gmc. *frijojanan "to love" (cf. O.N. frændi, O.Fris. friund, M.H.G. friunt, Ger. Freund, Goth. frijonds "friend," all alike from prp. forms). Related to O.E. freo "free." Meaning "a Quaker" (a member of the Society of Friends) is from 1670s.

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Feond ("fiend," originally "enemy") and freond often were paired alliteratively in O.E.; both are masculine agent nouns derived from prp. of verbs, but are not directly related to one another. Related: Friends. As a verb, in the Facebook sense, attested from 2005.

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