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Friend   /frɛnd/   Listen
Friend

noun
1.
A person you know well and regard with affection and trust.
2.
An associate who provides cooperation or assistance.  Synonym: ally.  Antonym: foe.
3.
A person with whom you are acquainted.  Synonym: acquaintance.  "We are friends of the family"  Antonym: stranger.
4.
A person who backs a politician or a team etc..  Synonyms: admirer, booster, champion, protagonist, supporter.  "They are friends of the library"
5.
A member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers).  Synonym: Quaker.



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"Friend" Quotes from Famous Books



... to me, Gilbert!" he said, that first evening of his sojourn at Hampton, after he had recovered from his faint, and was lying on the sofa sipping a cup of tea. "How good! and yet you are my friend no longer; all friendship is at an end between us. Well, God knows I am as helpless as that man who fell among thieves; I cannot choose but ...
— Fenton's Quest • M. E. Braddon
... when lord high-admiral, always so subscribed his official letters. It is said that this practice was discontinued in consequence of a distinguished naval captain—a knight—adding, "your affectionate friend." He was thereupon desired to "discontinue such an expression," when he replied, "I am, gentlemen, no longer ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... the love-tragedy is one scene which will seem out of tune with what has just been said—the Walpurgis Night. Here we are back again in the atmosphere of the legend, with its magic, its witchcraft, its gross sensuality. We hardly recognize our friend Faust when we find him dancing with naked witches and singing lewd songs on the Brocken. The scene was written in 1800 when Goethe had become a little cynical with respect to the artistic coherence of Faust and looked on it as a "monstrosity." It was a part ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke
... all the victims after the queen was Madame Roland, who was accused of being the friend of the Girondists. Woman has always acted a prominent part in the great events of French history, because the grand ideas and sentiments which have worked so powerfully upon the imaginative and impulsive temperament of the men of France, have ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers
... recorded exercised his ministry with fidelity in his Parish, preaching both at Alexandria and at Falls Church from 1780 to 1789. He had been chaplain in the 3rd Virginia Regiment during the revolution and was to the time of his death, in 1789, a close personal friend ...
— A Virginia Village • Charles A. Stewart


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