About The Word Friend
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Friend Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Friend?
[n] a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
[n] a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family" [n] an associate who provides assistance; "he's a good ally in fight"; "they were friends of the workers" [n] a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; "he was my best friend at the university" [n] a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library" Synonyms | Synonyms for Friend: acquaintance | admirer | ally | booster | champion | protagonist | Quaker | supporter Related Terms | Find terms related to Friend: acquaintance | adherent | advocate | ally | alter ego | amigo | angel | associate | baby | backer | beau | bedfellow | benefactor | best friend | bird | boon companion | bosom buddy | bosom friend | boyfriend | chum | cocker | cohort | colleague | compatriot | compeer | comrade | concubine | confederate | confidant | confidante | confrere | consociate | co-worker | crony | doxy | escort | familiar | fellow | financier | girl | intimate | investor | lover | Maecenas | man | mate | mistress | moll | pal | partner | patron | playmate | roomie | soul mate | squeeze | supporter | sweetheart | twist | woman See Also | advocate | advocator | alter ego | amigo | anglophil | anglophile | associate | believer | best friend | blood brother | Boswell | brother | buddy | bunkmate | campmate | Christian | chum | class fellow | classmate | companion | comrade | Confederate | confidant | connection | convert | crony | Damon | Damon and Pythias | end man | endorser | enthusiast | exponent | familiar | fellow | flatmate | Francophil | Francophile | free trader | functionalist | girlfriend | Graecophile | homeboy | human | individual | intimate | Jacobite | light | loyalist | mainstay | maintainer | mate | messmate | mortal | New Dealer | pal | partisan | partizan | Penn | person | philhellene | philhellenist | Phintias | pickup | pillar | proponent | Pythias | Quakers | ratifier | Religious Society of Friends | roommate | Roundhead | schoolfellow | schoolfriend | schoolmate | seconder | Shavian | sidekick | Society of Friends | somebody | someone | soul | stalwart | subscriber | sustainer | sympathiser | sympathizer | toaster | truster | upholder | verifier | voucher | wassailer | well-wisher | Whig | William Penn Friend In Webster's Dictionary \Friend\ (fr[e^]nd), n. [OR. frend, freond, AS.
fre['o]nd, prop. p. pr. of fre['o]n, fre['o]gan, to love;
akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love,
OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. fr[ae]ndi kinsman, Sw.
fr["a]nde. Goth. frij[=o]nds friend, frij[=o]n to love.
[root]83. See {Free}, and cf. {Fiend}.]
1. 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.
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
--Dryden.
A friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
--Prov. xviii.
24.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. A paramour of either sex. [Obs.] --Shak.
{A friend} {at court or in court}, one disposed to act as a
friend in a place of special opportunity or influence.
{To be friends with}, to have friendly relations with. ``He's
. . . friends with C[ae]sar.'' --Shak.
{To make friends with}, to become reconciled to or on
friendly terms with. ``Having now made friends with the
Athenians.'' --Jowett (Thucyd.).
\Friend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Friended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Friending}.] To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend. [Obs.] Fortune friends the bold. --Spenser. |
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