What does friend mean?
Definitions for friend
frɛndfriend
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word friend.
Princeton's WordNet
friendnoun
a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
"he was my best friend at the university"
ally, friendnoun
an associate who provides cooperation or assistance
"he's a good ally in fight"
acquaintance, friendnoun
a person with whom you are acquainted
"I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family"
supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friendnoun
a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
"all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library"
Friend, Quakernoun
a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
Wiktionary
friendnoun
A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
friendnoun
A boyfriend or girlfriend.
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friendnoun
An associate who provides assistance.
friendnoun
A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted
friendnoun
A person who backs or supports something.
I'm not a friend of cheap wine.
friendnoun
An object or idea that can be used for good.
Google is your friend.
friendnoun
Used as a form of address when warning someone.
You'd better watch it, friend.
friendnoun
In object-oriented programming, a function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
friendverb
To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
friendverb
To add a person to a list of friends on one's social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
Friendnoun
A Quaker; a member of the Society of Friends.
Friendnoun
(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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Etymology: From frend, freond, from freond, from frijōndz, from prēy-. Cognate with freon, froen, freondinne, vriend, frund, fründ, Freund, frænde, frände, frændi, 034603420339033E0349033D03330343. More at free.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
FRIENDnoun
Etymology: vriend, Dutch; freond, Saxon.
Friends of my soul, you twain
Rule in this realm, and the gor’d state sustain. William Shakespeare.Some man is a friend for his own occasion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble. Ecclus. vi. 8.
God’s benison go with you, and with those
That would make good of bad, and friends of foes. William Shakespeare.Wonder not to see this soul extend
The bounds, and seek some other self, a friend. Dryden.Who comes so fast in silence of the night?
—— A friend.
—— What friend? your name? William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.He’s friends with Cæsar,
In state of health thou say’st, and thou say’st free. William Shakespeare.My son came then into my mind; and yet my mind
Was then scarce friends with him. William Shakespeare, King Lear.The king ordains their entrance, and ascends
His regal seat, surrounded by his friends. John Dryden, Æn.Aurora riding upon Pegasus, sheweth her swiftness, and how she is a friend to poetry and all ingenious inventions. Henry Peacham.
Friend, how camest thou in hither? Mat. xxii. 12.
What supports me, do’st thou ask?
The conscience, friend, t’have lost mine eyes o’erply’d
In liberty’s defence. John Milton.To Friendverb
To favour; to befriend; to countenance; to support.
Etymology: from the noun.
I know that we shall have him well to friend. William Shakespeare.
When vice makes mercy, mercy’s so extended,
That, for the fault’s love, is th’ offender friended. William Shakespeare.
Webster Dictionary
Friendnoun
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
Friendnoun
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
Friendnoun
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
Friendnoun
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
Friendnoun
a paramour of either sex
Friendverb
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
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
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
friend
The masterpiece of Nature.
Rap Dictionary
friendnoun
A firearm, orginally from the movie Scarface. "Stay in your place I recommend, Or say hello to my little friend" -- G-Unit (My Buddy)
Editors Contribution
friend
A person we love to share time with.
We are so grateful in life to have a friend.
Submitted by MaryC on July 17, 2020
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'friend' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #579
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'friend' in Written Corpus Frequency: #803
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'friend' in Nouns Frequency: #76
Anagrams for friend »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of friend in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of friend in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of friend in a Sentence
Jaimito is my friend.
Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight.
The big issue for most employees is the social part of it -- getting coffee with a friend is fun, happy hours, and talking about what you did over the weekend -- all that stuff matters.
It's not their problem they're playing against a poor team, the U.S. team is not here to be anybody's friend. The U.S. team is here to win Fox Sports World Cup.
She was a very nurturing person, and this is the one time she actually left the house, and she didn't make it home, destiny wasn't the type to be the one on the streets. She was usually at home, and this was her trying to be a friend to somebody, and it cost her her life.
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- صديقArabic
- přítelCzech
- venDanish
- FreundGerman
- φίλοGreek
- amikoEsperanto
- amigoSpanish
- دوستPersian
- ystäväFinnish
- amiFrench
- caraIrish
- दोस्तHindi
- barátHungarian
- temanIndonesian
- amicoItalian
- חברHebrew
- 友人Japanese
- ಗೆಳತಿKannada
- 친구Korean
- AmicusLatin
- vriendDutch
- vennNorwegian
- przyjacielPolish
- amigosPortuguese
- prietenRomanian
- другRussian
- vänSwedish
- நண்பன்Tamil
- స్నేహితుడుTelugu
- เพื่อนThai
- arkadaşTurkish
- одинUkrainian
- دوستUrdu
- người bạnVietnamese
- פרייַנדYiddish
- 朋友Chinese
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