friendship
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English frendshipe, from Old English frēondsċipe, from Proto-West Germanic *friundskapi. Equivalent to friend + -ship.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
friendship (countable and uncountable, plural friendships)
- (uncountable) The condition of being friends.
- 1816 [1777], James Boswell, quoting Samuel Johnson, The life of Samuel Johnson […] [2], volume 3, T. Cadell and W. Davies, page 181:
- We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
- 1960, C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves, HarperCollins, published 2010, →ISBN, OCLC 30879763:
- Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
- (countable) A friendly relationship, or a relationship as friends.
- (uncountable) Good will.
Synonyms[edit]
- (being friends): chumship
- (friendly relationship): entente cordiale
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Translations[edit]
(uncountable) condition of being friends
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(countable) friendly relationship
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(uncountable) good will — see good will
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