Definitions for friend
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Princeton's WordNet(3.55 / 20 votes)Rate this definition:

1. friend(noun)

   a person you know well and regard with affection and trust

   "he was my best friend at the university"

2. ally, friend(noun)

   an associate who provides cooperation or assistance

   "he's a good ally in fight"

3. acquaintance, friend(noun)

   a person with whom you are acquainted

   "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"

4. supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend(noun)

   a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

   "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library"

5. Friend, Quaker(noun)

   a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)

Wiktionary(3.77 / 13 votes)Rate this definition:

1. friend(Noun)

   A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.

   Etymology: From frend, freond, from freond, from frijōndz, from prēy-. Cognate with freon, froen, freondinne, vriend, frund, fründ, Freund, frænde, frände, frændi,
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2. friend(Noun)

   A boyfriend or girlfriend.

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   Etymology: From frend, freond, from freond, from frijōndz, from prēy-. Cognate with freon, froen, freondinne, vriend, frund, fründ, Freund, frænde, frände, frændi,
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3. friend(Noun)

   An associate who provides assistance.

   Etymology: From frend, freond, from freond, from frijōndz, from prēy-. Cognate with freon, froen, freondinne, vriend, frund, fründ, Freund, frænde, frände, frændi,
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4. friend(Noun)

   A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted

   Etymology: From frend, freond, from freond, from frijōndz, from prēy-. Cognate with freon, froen, freondinne, vriend, frund, fründ, Freund, frænde, frände, frændi,
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5. friend(Noun)

   A person who backs or supports something.

   I'm not a friend of cheap wine.

   Etymology: From frend, freond, from freond, from frijōndz, from prēy-. Cognate with freon, froen, freondinne, vriend, frund, fründ, Freund, frænde, frände, frændi,
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6. friend(Noun)

   An object or idea that can be used for good.

   Google is your friend.

   Etymology: From frend, freond, from freond, from frijōndz, from prēy-. Cognate with freon, froen, freondinne, vriend, frund, fründ, Freund, frænde, frände, frændi,
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7. friend(Noun)

   Used as a form of address when warning someone.

   You'd better watch it, friend.

   Etymology: From frend, freond, from freond, from frijōndz, from prēy-. Cognate with freon, froen, freondinne, vriend, frund, fründ, Freund, frænde, frände, frændi,
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8. friend(Noun)

   In object-oriented programming, a function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.

   Etymology: From frend, freond, from freond, from frijōndz, from prēy-. Cognate with freon, froen, freondinne, vriend, frund, fründ, Freund, frænde, frände, frændi,
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9. friend(Verb)

   To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.

   Etymology: From frend, freond, from freond, from frijōndz, from prēy-. Cognate with freon, froen, freondinne, vriend, frund, fründ, Freund, frænde, frände, frændi,
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10. friend(Verb)

    To add a person to a list of friends on one's social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.

    Etymology: From frend, freond, from freond, from frijōndz, from prēy-. Cognate with freon, froen, freondinne, vriend, frund, fründ, Freund, frænde, frände, frændi,
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11. Friend(Noun)

    A Quaker; a member of the Society of Friends.

    Etymology: From frend, freond, from freond, from frijōndz, from prēy-. Cognate with freon, froen, freondinne, vriend, frund, fründ, Freund, frænde, frände, frændi,
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12. Friend(Noun)

    (rock-climbing) Brand name of a spring-loaded camming device now manufactured by Wild Country. Now used (often without initial capital) to refer to any such device.

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Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Friend(noun)

   one who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant

   Etymology: [OE. frend, freond, AS. frend, prop. p. pr. of fren, fregan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frndi kinsman, Sw. frnde. Goth. frijnds friend, frijn to love. 83. See Free, and cf. Fiend.]

2. Friend(noun)

   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

   Etymology: [OE. frend, freond, AS. frend, prop. p. pr. of fren, fregan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frndi kinsman, Sw. frnde. Goth. frijnds friend, frijn to love. 83. See Free, and cf. Fiend.]

3. Friend(noun)

   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

   Etymology: [OE. frend, freond, AS. frend, prop. p. pr. of fren, fregan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frndi kinsman, Sw. frnde. Goth. frijnds friend, frijn to love. 83. See Free, and cf. Fiend.]

4. Friend(noun)

   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

   Etymology: [OE. frend, freond, AS. frend, prop. p. pr. of fren, fregan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frndi kinsman, Sw. frnde. Goth. frijnds friend, frijn to love. 83. See Free, and cf. Fiend.]

5. Friend(noun)

   a paramour of either sex

   Etymology: [OE. frend, freond, AS. frend, prop. p. pr. of fren, fregan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frndi kinsman, Sw. frnde. Goth. frijnds friend, frijn to love. 83. See Free, and cf. Fiend.]

6. Friend(verb)

   to act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend

   Etymology: [OE. frend, freond, AS. frend, prop. p. pr. of fren, fregan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frndi kinsman, Sw. frnde. Goth. frijnds friend, frijn to love. 83. See Free, and cf. Fiend.]

Freebase(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Friend

   Friend is a city in Saline County, Nebraska, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 1,027.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Friend

   frend, n. one loving or attached to another: an intimate acquaintance: a favourer: one of a society so called: (Scot.) a relative.—v.t. (obs.) to befriend.—adj. Friend′ed, supplied with friends.—n. Friend′ing (Shak.), friendliness.—adj. Friend′less, without friends: destitute.—n. Friend′lessness.—adv. Friend′lily.—n. Friend′liness.—adj. Friend′ly, like a friend: having the disposition of a friend: favourable: pertaining to the Friends or Quakers.—n. Friend′ship, attachment from mutual esteem: friendly assistance.—Friendly societies, or Benefit societies, associations, chiefly among mechanics, &c., for relief during sickness, old age, widowhood, by provident insurance.—Be friends with, to be on intimate or friendly relations with; Have a friend at court, to have a friend in a position where his influence is likely to prove useful; Society of Friends, the designation proper of a sect of Christians better known as Quakers. [A.S. fréond, pr.p. of fréon, to love; Ger. freund.]

The Roycroft Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. friend

   The masterpiece of Nature.

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1. friend(noun)

   A firearm, orginally from the movie Scarface. "Stay in your place I recommend, Or say hello to my little friend" -- G-Unit (My Buddy)

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1. friend

   A person we love to share time with.

   We are so grateful in life to have a friend.

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'friend' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #579

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'friend' in Written Corpus Frequency: #803

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'friend' in Nouns Frequency: #76

Anagrams for friend »

1. finder

2. refind

3. finder, refind

How to pronounce friend?

1. Alex

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of friend in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of friend in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of friend in a Sentence

1. Cicero:

   The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

2. Pope Francis:

   If Dr. Gasbarri, a great friend, says a swear word against my mother, then a punch awaits him, it's normal, it's normal. One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith.

3. Jeff Rapoch:

   I got a phone call from my friend Eddie saying, ‘Hey, I found your wife. You need to get here right now, she was in the middle of the path and her bike was on one side… she was sort of sitting up and looking around really kind of bewildered.

4. Jwalant Gurung:

   I assured Maya's father that I would take care of her, i told them I had a friend who was a doctor.

5. Jessica Langford:

   I felt trapped in a teacher’s life. I was distracted, I was unable to focus only on my teaching duties, being the teacher all students wanted to have, I have learned to be a great teacher – does n’t mean I need to be a friend to students and that there should be boundaries between teacher-student relationships.

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