Sekirov Dictionary

friend

/fɹɛnd/

noun 13
verb 2
forms 4
phrases 7

noun13

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a person you like and enjoy being with, who is usually not part of your family
- John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college.
- Trust is important between friends.
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A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
- I added him as a friend on Facebook, but I hardly know him.
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[in the plural] Used to refer collectively to a group of associated individuals, especially those comprising a cast, company, or crew
- Meanwhile on The View, Whoopi Goldberg and friends continue to spout their takes on the hot topics of the day.
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An associate who provides assistance; patron, mentor.
- The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend. The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.
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(informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
- Fruit is your friend.
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(informal) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
- You’d better watch it, friend.
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A person who backs or supports something.
- I’m not a friend of cheap wine.
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(euphemistic) A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
- Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue ; Nor never come in visard to my friend — 1595
A Quaker; a member of the Society of Friends. (See also Friends.)
Brand name of a spring-loaded camming device, now used to refer to any such device, often uncapitalized, as friend.
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A spring-loaded camming device.
- Since they were introduced in the 1970s, friends have revolutionized climbing, making protection possible in previously impossible places […] — 1995
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A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
- But don't take the following sections as an endorsement of friends. Top C++ programmers avoid using friends unless absolutely necessary. — 1991
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(Scotland, no longer used) A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
- Friends agree best at a distance.
- Make friends of framet folk.

verb2

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To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
- The two distributions which exhibited this property were in response to the statements, “I am careful about who I friend,” and, “If someone friends me, I will friend them.” (Figure 3). — 2007
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(no longer used) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
- Lo sluggish Knight the victors happie pray: / So fortune friends the bold [...]. — 1596

forms

friended · friending · friends · Friends

Phrases with friend

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