FRIEND

Friend, Quaker

(noun) a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)

acquaintance, friend

(noun) a person with whom you are acquainted; “I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances”; “we are friends of the family”

ally, friend

(noun) an associate who provides cooperation or assistance; “he’s a good ally in fight”

friend

(noun) a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; “he was my best friend at the university”

supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend

(noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; “all their supporters came out for the game”; “they are friends of the library”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Noun

Friend (plural Friends)

A Quaker; a member of the Society of Friends. (See also Friends.)

(rock-climbing) Brand name of a spring-loaded camming device, now used to refer to any such device, often uncapitalized, as friend.

Proper noun

Friend

A surname.

Anagrams

• finder, frined, redfin, refind

Etymology

Noun

friend (plural friends)

A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.

An associate who provides assistance.

A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.

A person who backs or supports something.

(informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.

(colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.

(object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.

(climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.

(euphemistic) A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.

(Scotland, obsolete) A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.

Synonyms

• (person whose company one enjoys): See Thesaurus:friend

• (boyfriend or girlfriend): See Thesaurus:lover

• (person with whom you are acquainted): acquaintance, contact

• (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, buddy, sonny

Antonyms

• (person whose company one enjoys): See Thesaurus:enemy

• (person with whom you are acquainted): stranger

• (person who provides assistance): enemy, foe

Usage notes

• We usually make a friend, or make friends with someone. See Collocations of do, have, make, and take

• In older texts and certain dialects, the 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.

Verb

friend (third-person singular simple present friends, present participle friending, simple past and past participle friended)

(transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.

(transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.

Synonyms

• (to act as the friend of): befriend

Antonyms

• (social networking): defriend, unfriend

Anagrams

• finder, frined, redfin, refind

Source: Wiktionary

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Friend, n. Etym: [OR. frend, freond, AS. freónd, prop. p. pr. of freón, freógan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frændi kinsman, Sw. frände. Goth. frij friend, frij to love. sq. root83. See Free, and cf. Fiend.]

1. One who entertains for another suo Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. Dryden. A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Prov. xviii. 24.

2. One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address. Friend, how camest thou in hither Matt. xxii. 12.

3. One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.

4. One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers. America was first visited by Friends in 1656. T. Chase.

5. A paramour of either sex. [Obs.] Shak. A friend at court or in court, one disposed to act as a friend in a place of special opportunity or influence.

– To be friends with, to have friendly relations with. "He's . . . friends with Cæsar." Shak.

– To make friends with, to become reconciled to or on friendly terms with. "Having now made friends with the Athenians." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Friend, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Friended; p. pr, & vb. n. Friending.]

Definition: To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend. [Obs.] Fortune friends the bold. Spenser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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