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noun
1.
a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
2.
a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter: friends of the Boston Symphony.
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.
5.
( initial capital letter ) a member of the Religious Society of Friends; a Quaker.
verb (used with object)
7.
Rare. to befriend.
8.
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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9.
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
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.
1. comrade, chum, crony, confidant. See acquaintance. 2. backer, advocate. 4. ally, associate, confrere, compatriot.
Antonyms
1, 4. enemy, foe.
1, 4. enemy, foe.
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friend (frɛnd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 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) |
| —vb | |
| 8. | (tr) an archaic word for befriend |
| [Old English frēond; related to Old Saxon friund, Old Norse frǣndi, Gothic frijōnds, Old High German friunt] | |
| 'friendless | |
| —adj | |
| 'friendlessness | |
| —n | |
| 'friendship | |
| —n | |
| Friend1 (frɛnd) | |
| —n | |
| a member of the Religious Society of Friends; Quaker | |
| Friend2 (frɛnd) | |
| —n | |
| mountaineering trademark a device consisting of a shaft with double-headed spring-loaded cams that can be wedged in a crack to provide an anchor point | |
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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.
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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Idioms & Phrases
friend
In addition to the idiom beginning with friend, also see fair-weather friend; make friends.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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Example sentences
Chances are you have a friend with a house in one of these roaming areas.
People sometimes tell him they know him from somewhere or they're a friend of his dad.
Submersible craft in the early years of their development were perilous to friend and foe alike.
So seldom does that friend make his feelings clear by sending out an e-mail alert.
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