Canadian English Meaning of friend

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Definitions and Meaning of friend in English

Wordnet

friend (n)

a person you know well and regard with affection and trust

an associate who provides cooperation or assistance

a person with whom you are acquainted

a person who backs a politician or a team etc.

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

Webster

friend (n.)

One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.

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.

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.

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.

A paramour of either sex.

Webster

friend (v. t.)

To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.

FAQs About the word friend

friend

a person you know well and regard with affection and trust, an associate who provides cooperation or assistance, a person with whom you are acquainted, a person

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enemy,enemy,adversary,antagonist,competitor,Opponent,rival,archenemy,nemesis

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