Definition of friend Friend
/fɹɛˈnd/ - [frend] - Friend
We found 32 definitions of friend from 8 different sources.
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What does friend mean?
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NounPlural: friends |
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| friend - a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; "he was my best friend at the university" | ||
| mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism | ||
| alter ego a very close and trusted friend who seems almost a part of yourself | ||
| amigo a friend or comrade | ||
| best friend the one friend who is closest to you | ||
| comrade, brother a fellow member of the Communist Party | ||
| buddy, crony, pal, sidekick, chum, brother a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | ||
| companion, comrade, familiar, associate, fellow one paid to accompany or assist or live with another | ||
| confidant, intimate someone to whom private matters are confided | ||
| flatmate an associate who shares an apartment with you | ||
| girlfriend a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved; "his girlfriend kicked him out" | ||
| light any device serving as a source of illumination; "he stopped the car and turned off the lights" | ||
| mate South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate | ||
| roomie, roommate, roomy an associate who shares a room with you | ||
| schoolfriend a friend who attends the same school | ||
| friend - a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers) | ||
| Quaker | ||
| christian a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination | ||
| quakers, religious society of friends, society of friends a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers | ||
| friend - a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library" | ||
| supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster | ||
| advocator, proponent, advocate, exponent a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea | ||
| anglophil, anglophile an admirer of England and things English | ||
| truster, believer a person who has religious faith | ||
| boswell a devoted admirer and recorder of another's words and deeds | ||
| cheerleader someone who leads the cheers by spectators at a sporting event | ||
| confederate someone who assists in a plot | ||
| corporatist a supporter of corporatism | ||
| enthusiast, partizan, partisan an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity | ||
| francophil, francophile an admirer of France and everything French | ||
| free trader an advocate of unrestricted international trade | ||
| functionalist an adherent of functionalism | ||
| jacobite a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts | ||
| loyalist, stalwart a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt) | ||
| new dealer a supporter of the economic policies in the United States known as the New Deal | ||
| graecophile, philhellene, philhellenist an admirer of Greece and everything Greek | ||
| mainstay, pillar the forestay that braces the mainmast | ||
| roundhead a supporter of parliament and Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War | ||
| seconder someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote | ||
| shavian an admirer of G. B. Shaw or his works | ||
| ratifier, endorser, indorser, subscriber a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security | ||
| well-wisher, sympathiser, sympathizer someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful | ||
| toaster, wassailer a kitchen appliance (usually electric) for toasting bread | ||
| maintainer, sustainer, upholder someone who upholds or maintains; "firm upholders of tradition"; "they are sustainers of the idea of democracy" | ||
| verifier, voucher a document that serves as evidence of some expenditure | ||
| friend - a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family" | ||
| acquaintance | ||
| stranger, alien, unknown anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found | ||
| mortal, somebody, someone, individual, person, soul a single organism | ||
| bunkmate someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself | ||
| campmate someone who lives in the same camp you do | ||
| connection shifting from one form of transportation to another; "the plane was late and he missed his connection in Atlanta" | ||
| end man a man at one end of a row of people | ||
| homeboy a male friend from your neighborhood or hometown | ||
| messmate (nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship) | ||
| pickup the act of taking aboard passengers or freight | ||
| class fellow, classmate, schoolfellow, schoolmate an acquaintance that you go to school with | ||
| friend - an associate who provides cooperation or assistance; "he's a good ally in fight" | ||
| ally | ||
| foe, enemy a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years" | ||
| associate any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another; "first was the lightning and then its thunderous associate" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- friend (Noun)
A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. - friend (Noun)
A boyfriend or girlfriend. - friend (Noun)
An associate who provides assistance. - friend (Noun)
A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted. - friend (Noun)
A person who backs or supports something. - friend (Noun)
An object or idea that can be used for good. - friend (Noun)
Used as a form of address when warning someone. - friend (Noun)
In object-oriented programming , a function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class. - friend (Verb)
To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help. - friend (Verb)
To add a person to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate someone as a friend.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- friend (n.)
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. - friend (n.)
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 (n.)
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. - friend (n.)
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. - friend (n.)
A paramour of either sex. - friend (v. t.)
To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. -
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An associate who provides assistance. -
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A person that someone has met repeatedly, and has a superficial knowledge of. -
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A person with whom one has a love affair.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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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.]
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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A friend is not so soon gotten as lost. -
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A friend in need is a friend indeed. -
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He loseth nothing who keeps God for his friend. -
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Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend.
Wikipedia 
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A friend is a person that someone likes or knows. People who are friends talk to each other and spend time together. They also help each other when they are in trouble. Friends are people that can be looked up to and trusted. A friend is one who admires a person's skill and helps or encourages them to make the right choices.
People sometimes call their closest friend their "best friend."
If a person become very good friends with someone, they are called their boyfriend or girlfriend. This means that they like them very much, and have formed a relationship. Women often use the word girlfriend when referring to their close female friends.
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