friend
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Middle English frend < Old English frēond.
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[edit] Noun
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friend (plural friends)
- A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
- A boyfriend or girlfriend.
- An associate who provides assistance.
- The Automobile Association is every motorist’s friend.
- The police is every law abiding citizen’s friend.
- A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted
- a friend of a friend
- A person who backs something.
- I’m not a friend of cheap wine.
- An object or idea that can be used for good.
- Google is your friend.
- (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
- You’d better watch it, friend.
[edit] Synonyms
- (person whose company one enjoys): bud (US, Canada), buddy (US, Canada), chum (British), mate (British), pal, crony, amigo
- (boyfriend or girlfriend): boyfriend, girlfriend, lover
- (person with whom you are acquainted): acquaintance
- (person who provides assistance): ally
- (person who backs something): admirer, booster, champion, protagonist, supporter
- (form of address used in warning someone): buster, mate (British), pal
- See also Wikisaurus:friend
[edit] Antonyms
- (person whose company one enjoys): enemy, foe, nemesis (nonstandard)
- (person who provides assistance): enemy, foe
[edit] Usage notes
- We usually make a friend, or make friends with someone. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
[edit] Derived terms
Term derived from the noun "friend"
[edit] Translations
person whose company one enjoys
boyfriend or girlfriend
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person with whom you are acquainted
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person who provides assistance
person who backs something
object or idea that can be used for good
form of address used to warn someone
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to friend (third-person singular simple present friends, present participle friending, simple past and past participle friended)
- to act as the friend of
- (online social networking): to include a person into a list of associates of one's social networking site
- 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.
- 2006, Kevin Farnham and Dale G. Farnham, Myspace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens And Parents, How-To Primers, ISBN 0977883353, page 69,
- One of the most used features of MySpace is the practice that is nicknamed "friending." If you "friend" someone, then that person is added to your MySpace friends list, and you are added to their friends list.
- 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,
[edit] Synonyms
- (to act as the friend of): befriend
[edit] Antonyms
[edit] Translations
to act as the friend of
