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friendsnoun
Participants in a two-way friendship relationship.
Friendsnoun
The Quakers; the Society of Friends.
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Friends
Friends is an American television sitcom, created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons. With an ensemble cast starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer, the show revolved around six friends in their 20s and 30s who lived in Manhattan, New York City. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. The original executive producers were Kevin S. Bright, Kauffman, and Crane. Kauffman and Crane began developing Friends under the title Insomnia Cafe between November and December 1993. They presented the idea to Bright, and together they pitched a seven-page treatment of the show to NBC. After several script rewrites and changes, including title changes to Six of One and Friends Like Us, the series was finally named Friends.Filming of the show took place at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California. All ten seasons of Friends ranked within the top ten of the final television season ratings; it ultimately reached the number-one spot in its eighth season. The series finale aired on May 6, 2004, and was watched by around 52.5 million American viewers, making it the fifth most-watched series finale in television history, and the most-watched television episode of the 2000s decade.Friends received acclaim throughout its run, becoming one of the most popular television shows of all time. The series was nominated for 62 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning the Outstanding Comedy Series award in 2002 for its eighth season. The show ranked no. 21 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and no. 7 on Empire magazine's The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 1997, the episode "The One with the Prom Video" was ranked no. 100 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time. In 2013, Friends ranked no. 24 on the Writers Guild of America's 101 Best Written TV Series of All Time, and no. 28 on TV Guide's 60 Best TV Series of All Time.
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Friends
Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. The original executive producers were Crane, Kauffman and Kevin S. Bright, with numerous others being promoted in later seasons. Kauffman and Crane began developing Friends under the title Insomnia Cafe in November/December 1993. They presented the idea to Bright, with whom they had previously worked, and together they pitched a seven-page treatment of the series to NBC. After several script rewrites and changes, including a second title change to Friends Like Us, the series was finally named Friends and premiered on NBC's coveted Thursday 8:30 pm timeslot. Filming for the series took place at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California in front of a live studio audience. The series finale, airing on May 6, 2004, was watched by 51.1 million American viewers, making it the fourth most watched series finale in television history and the most watched episode of the decade.
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Friends
Persons whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
Editors Contribution
friends
Plural form of the word friend.
Our family and friends are a gift to our souls.
Submitted by MaryC on April 17, 2020
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Rank popularity for the word 'friends' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #653
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Rank popularity for the word 'friends' in Written Corpus Frequency: #791
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of friends in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
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The numerical value of friends in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of friends in a Sentence
When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
I tell friends and family, colleagues and especially young people that when you see something that's not right or fair, you have to do something, you have to speak up, you have to get in the way.
Since Covid emerged, people have used our services to stay in touch with friends and family who they can't be with in person, and to keep their businesses running online even when physical stores are closed, in many ways amidst this very difficult period for people around the world, our services are more important now than ever before.
Intelligence always impressed Linda, but they couldn’t have been more different. She was a tall, lanky blondish brown hair gal who had a lot of friends and had worked a long time for one company. Paul was short… not very good-looking and didn’t really have a penny to his name, although he dressed well and spoke so eloquently. He had the ability to overwhelm you with his intelligence. She was really taken by that and overlooked everything else.
Before this incident he was religious like any other Egyptian but he did not hate the men from state security or Egyptian Army and he had many friends in the police, after this incident he cut all of them off except for two.
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- اصحابArabic
- přáteléCzech
- vennerDanish
- FreundeGerman
- οι φιλοιGreek
- amikojEsperanto
- amigosSpanish
- دوستانPersian
- ystävätFinnish
- amisFrench
- मित्रHindi
- barátokHungarian
- temanIndonesian
- amiciItalian
- 友人Japanese
- ಸ್ನೇಹಿತರುKannada
- 친구Korean
- amicis,Latin
- vriendenDutch
- vennerNorwegian
- przyjacielePolish
- amigosPortuguese
- prieteniRomanian
- друзьяRussian
- vännerSwedish
- స్నేహితులుTelugu
- ArkadaşTurkish
- друзівUkrainian
- دوستUrdu
- פרייַנדYiddish
- 朋友Chinese
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