Friend - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |frend|  American pronunciation of the word friend
Brit.  |frend|  British pronunciation of the word friend

noun

- a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
he was my best friend at the university
- an associate who provides cooperation or assistance (syn: ally)
- a person with whom you are acquainted (syn: acquaintance)
we are friends of the family
- a person who backs a politician or a team etc. (syn: admirer, booster, champion, protagonist, supporter)
they are friends of the library
- a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers) (syn: quaker)

Extra examples

I'd like you to meet my friend.

He's no friend of mine.

She was a good friend to us.

Jerry, this is my friend Sue.

Is this man a friend of yours?

Mia was the wife of his best friend.

One of her closest friends died at the weekend.

I didn't expect this treatment from my father's oldest friend.

She told this to only a few trusted friends.

I met Jim through a friend of a friend.

Few people smoke in my circle of friends.

Jill is a mutual friend of ours.

She shot him a quick glance as if unsure whether he was friend or foe.

Don't worry, you're among friends.

A friend in need is a friend indeed. посл.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: friend
he/she/it: friends
present participle: friending
past tense: friended
past participle: friended
noun
singular: friend
plural: friends
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