friend
IPA: frˈɛnd
noun
- A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
- An associate who provides assistance.
- A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
- A person who backs or supports something.
- (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
- (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
- (object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
- (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
- (euphemistic) A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
- (Scotland, obsolete) A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
- (in the plural, usually preceded by "and") Used to refer collectively to a group of associated individuals, especially those comprising a cast, company, or crew
- A Quaker; a member of the Society of Friends. (See also Friends.)
- (rock-climbing) Brand name of a spring-loaded camming device, now used to refer to any such device, often uncapitalized, as friend.
- A surname transferred from the common noun.
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
- (transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
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Examples of "friend" in Sentences
- I'm forwarding the link to friends and family.
- But you, my friend my *friend* are not guilty of this.
- I am thankful for the support of my friends and my family.
- She has a bucolic life in Ireland with her family and friends.
- The parting was amicable and the former couple remained friends.
- Family and friends gathered to pay their respects and memorialize him.
- "I have a friend here, Hamilton -- _one friend_ -- and she must stay."
- Relatives and family friends offer gifts to the parents of the bridegroom.
- My decision to spend the holiday with my family and friends is inexcusable.
- I can understand the outrage of families and friends of the police officers.
- It is much to his own surprise and the astonishment of comrades, friends and family
- Would any friend, any real _friend_ have left you alone through this Weston business?
- A friend of the family provided the sperm, and the couple used equipment to impregnate the woman.
- Yes; and that is a friend of the Majorsthat is a friend whose life the Major ought to take (pointing to the LANDLORD).
- In adhering to the Taylor families Mr. Webster obeyed the injunction of Solomon who said, "Thine own friend, and thy _father's friend_ forsake not."
- All friendship is preferring the interest of a friend, to the neglect, or, perhaps, against the interest of others; so that an old Greek said, "He that has _friends_ has _no friend_."
- "I can easily," says a sensible friend of mine, "hire a woman to make my linen and dress my dinner, but I cannot so readily procure a _friend_ and _companion_ for myself, and a preceptress for my children."
- This post also nobly defended in the late war, while it brings the affecting recollection of a confidential friend in my military family, associates with the remembrance of the illustrious defence of another fort, in the war of the revolution, by the _friend_ now near me.
- HPFacebookVoteV2. init (391677, 'Defriended: The Politics Of Social Networking', 'Last week my procrastination led me to conduct a classmate search on Facebook in which I noticed that a girl who had been my friend now had a \ "add as a friend\" rectangle next to her face.
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