friend Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
- he was my best friend at the university
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noun an associate who provides cooperation or assistance
ally.
- he's a good ally in fight
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noun a person with whom you are acquainted
acquaintance.
- I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances
- we are friends of the family
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noun a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
champion; protagonist; admirer; supporter; booster.
- all their supporters came out for the game
- they are friends of the library
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noun a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
Quaker.
WordNet
Friend noun
Etymology
OR.Definitions
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One who entertains for another suo, sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he scens the society and welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant. Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. Dryden.
A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Prov. xviii. 24.
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One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address. Friend, how camest thou in hither? Matt. xxii. 12.
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One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a .friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution -
One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers. America was first visited by Friends in 1656. T. Chase.
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A paramour of either sex. Obs. Shak.
Friend transitive verb
Wordforms
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To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend. Obs.Fortune friends the bold. Spenser.