friend

Etymology
From, , from , from , from , from , equivalent to.

Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, , , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. More at.

Other cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
 * 2) * 1917, Richard M. Gummere translating as , Loeb Classical Library, Vol. I, No. 3:
 * ...if you consider any man a friend whom you do not trust as you trust yourself, you are mightily mistaken and you do not sufficiently understand what true friendship means.
 * 1) * 1923, William Armistead Falconer translating as De Amicitia, Loeb Classical Library, Vol. XX, p. 34:
 * ...he who looks upon a true friend, looks, as it were, upon a sort of image of himself. Wherefore friends, though absent, are at hand; though in need, yet abound; though weak, are strong; and&mdash;harder saying still&mdash;though dead, are yet alive; so great is the esteem on the part of their friends, the tender recollection and the deep longing that still attends them.
 * 1) * 1927 Mar. 31,, letter to :
 * ...you are my devoted friend too. You do more and work harder and oh shit I'd get maudlin about how damned swell you are. My god I'd like to see you... You're a hell of a good guy.
 * 1) * 1933 Dec. 12,, "On Broadway", Scranton Republican, p. 5:
 * Definition of a friend: One who walks in&mdash;when the rest of the world walks out.
 * 1) An associate who provides assistance.
 * 2) A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
 * 3) A person who backs or supports something.
 * 4)  An object or idea that can be used for good.
 * 5)  A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
 * 6)  A spring-loaded camming device.
 * 7)  A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
 * 8)  A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
 * Friends agree best at a distance.
 * Make friends of framet folk.
 * 1) * 1895, Crockett, Bog-Myrtle, 232:
 * He was not a drop's blood to me, though him and my wife were far-out friends.
 * Meanwhile on The View, Whoopi Goldberg and friends continue to issue forced apologies for their assumptive comments regarding non-profit organisation Turning Point USA...
 * 1)  A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
 * 2)  A spring-loaded camming device.
 * 3)  A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
 * 4)  A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
 * Friends agree best at a distance.
 * Make friends of framet folk.
 * 1) * 1895, Crockett, Bog-Myrtle, 232:
 * He was not a drop's blood to me, though him and my wife were far-out friends.
 * Meanwhile on The View, Whoopi Goldberg and friends continue to issue forced apologies for their assumptive comments regarding non-profit organisation Turning Point USA...
 * 1)  A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
 * Friends agree best at a distance.
 * Make friends of framet folk.
 * 1) * 1895, Crockett, Bog-Myrtle, 232:
 * He was not a drop's blood to me, though him and my wife were far-out friends.
 * Meanwhile on The View, Whoopi Goldberg and friends continue to issue forced apologies for their assumptive comments regarding non-profit organisation Turning Point USA...
 * 1) * 1895, Crockett, Bog-Myrtle, 232:
 * He was not a drop's blood to me, though him and my wife were far-out friends.
 * Meanwhile on The View, Whoopi Goldberg and friends continue to issue forced apologies for their assumptive comments regarding non-profit organisation Turning Point USA...
 * Meanwhile on The View, Whoopi Goldberg and friends continue to issue forced apologies for their assumptive comments regarding non-profit organisation Turning Point USA...
 * Meanwhile on The View, Whoopi Goldberg and friends continue to issue forced apologies for their assumptive comments regarding non-profit organisation Turning Point USA...

Usage notes

 * friends is found as an invariable plural in the phrases make friends with and be friends with: I am friends with her; He made friends with his co-worker.
 * We usually make a friend, or make friends with someone. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
 * In older texts and certain dialects, the prepositional phrase to friend means "as a friend or an ally", for exampleː "with God to frend (Spenser)". The antonym to the phrase to friend is to fiend.

Synonyms

 * ,, pal, buddy, sonny
 * ,, pal, buddy, sonny
 * ,, pal, buddy, sonny
 * ,, pal, buddy, sonny
 * ,, pal, buddy, sonny
 * ,, pal, buddy, sonny

Verb

 * 1)  To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
 * 2)  To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
 * 3) * 2006, David Fono and Kate Raynes-Goldie, "Hyperfriendship and Beyond: Friends and Social Norms on LiveJournal" (PDF version), Internet Research Annual Volume 4, Peter Lang, ISBN 0820478571, page 99,
 * The difference between responses to the statement, "If someone friends me, I will friend them," and "If I friend someone, I expect them to friend me back," is telling.
 * 1) * 2006, David Fono and Kate Raynes-Goldie, "Hyperfriendship and Beyond: Friends and Social Norms on LiveJournal" (PDF version), Internet Research Annual Volume 4, Peter Lang, ISBN 0820478571, page 99,
 * The difference between responses to the statement, "If someone friends me, I will friend them," and "If I friend someone, I expect them to friend me back," is telling.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: bevriend wees
 * Belarusian: сябрава́ць
 * Dutch: bevriend zijn met
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Persian: دوستی کردن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Zazaki: dostey kerden


 * Afrikaans: vriende raak
 * Bulgarian: сприятеля́вам се
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Estonian: sõbrunema
 * Finnish: lisätä kaveriksi
 * French: se lier d'amitié
 * Hungarian: ismerősnek jelöl
 * Polish: dodać do znajomych
 * Portuguese:, marcar como amigo
 * Russian:, доба́вить в друзья́
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пријатељевати
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: spriateliť sa
 * Spanish:, hacer amigos
 * Tagalog: kaibiganin
 * Ukrainian: зафре́ндити
 * Zazaki: embaz kerden

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  the likes of; something similar to
 * 1)  the likes of; something similar to
 * 1)  the likes of; something similar to
 * 1)  the likes of; something similar to
 * 1)  the likes of; something similar to
 * 1)  the likes of; something similar to

Adjective

 * 1)  in a close or friendly relationship

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  cam