Friend
[frend] or [frɛnd]
Definition
(noun.) a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers).
(noun.) a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; 'he was my best friend at the university'.
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Definition
(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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A paramour of either sex.
(v. t.) To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.
Editor: Shelton
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Patron, advocate, confidant, adherent, associate, ally, intimate, good genius, bosom friend.[2]. Favorer, encourager, well-wisher.[3]. Quaker.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Associate, companion, acquaintance, familiar, ally, chum, messmate, coadjutor,confidant, adherent
ANT:Opponent, foe, adversary, antagonist, enemy
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Definition
n. one loving or attached to another: an intimate acquaintance: a favourer: one of a society so called: (Scot.) a relative.—v.t. (obs.) to befriend.—adj. Friend′ed supplied with friends.—n. Friend′ing (Shak.) friendliness.—adj. Friend′less without friends: destitute.—n. Friend′lessness.—adv. Friend′lily.—n. Friend′liness.—adj. Friend′ly like a friend: having the disposition of a friend: favourable: pertaining to the Friends or Quakers.—n. Friend′ship attachment from mutual esteem: friendly assistance.—Friendly societies or Benefit societies associations chiefly among mechanics &c. for relief during sickness old age widowhood by provident insurance.—Be friends with to be on intimate or friendly relations with; Have a friend at court to have a friend in a position where his influence is likely to prove useful; Society of Friends the designation proper of a sect of Christians better known as Quakers.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of friends being well and happy, denotes pleasant tidings of them, or you will soon see them or some of their relatives. To see your friend troubled and haggard, sickness or distress is upon them. To see your friends dark-colored, denotes unusual sickness or trouble to you or to them. To see them take the form of animals, signifies that enemies will separate you from your closest relations. To see your friend who dresses in somber colors in flaming red, foretells that unpleasant things will transpire, causing you anxiety if not loss, and that friends will be implicated. To dream you see a friend standing like a statue on a hill, denotes you will advance beyond present pursuits, but will retain former impressions of justice and knowledge, seeking these through every change. If the figure below be low, you will ignore your friends of former days in your future advancement. If it is on a plane or level with you, you will fail in your ambition to reach other spheres. If you seem to be going from it, you will force yourself to seek a change in spite of friendly ties or self-admonition. To dream you see a friend with a white cloth tied over his face, denotes that you will be injured by some person who will endeavor to keep up friendly relations with you. To dream that you are shaking hands with a person who has wronged you, and he is taking his departure and looks sad, foretells you will have differences with a close friend and alienation will perhaps follow. You are most assuredly nearing loss of some character.
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Examples
- Where's your friend? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- What's he up to in the case of your friend the handsome gal? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I clutched the leg of the table again immediately, and pressed it to my bosom as if it had been the companion of my youth and friend of my soul. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The fact is, my young friend,' said Mr. Stiggins solemnly, 'he has an obderrate bosom. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Our friend, the doctor, was hard put to it when he wrote this. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Your friend, you know. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- How, then, is it possible, said my friend, that you can keep on your business? Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Laura had certainly written to say she would pass the night under the roof of her old friend--but she had never been near the house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Charlotte (the name of my false young friend) had gone down before me, and I heard this aunt speaking to her about me as I entered. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I don't defend poor Stanislas, though he has always called me his best friend. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- If there's police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend too. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I admire her--as my friend does--exceedingly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Bella asked him, had he any notion who that unknown friend might be? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Could you commission any friend of yours to bring me a pair, if you've no further use for 'em? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- To one of the most generous and kindest men in the world, as he is one of the greatest--to my excellent friend, the Marquis of Steyne. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Perhaps you had better go after my friends at once, because the weather is warm, and I can not 'keep' long. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He thought of Miss Ophelia's letter to his Kentucky friends, and would pray earnestly that God would send him deliverance. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You have already done me good, and you and I are now, I hope, sworn friends. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I hadn't any particular work to give him, but I had a number of small induction coils, and to give him something to do I told him to fix them up and sell them among his sailor friends. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I passed to the altered days when I was so blest as to find friends in all around me, and to be beloved. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Halliday and he were friends since Eton. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Egypt and our friends the Bermudians! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She persisted until she finally conquered the elephant's prejudices, and now they are inseparable friends. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I would never have treated Miss Crawley's faithful friends as that odious designing Mrs. Bute has done. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Horribly--especially when I see all my friends rushing to the steamer. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He has many friends, and is at a time of life when friends and engagements are continually increasing. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- At first sight the two sons of Ariston may seem to wear a family likeness, like the two friends Simmias and Cebes in the Phaedo. Plato. The Republic.
- You ain't got no friends. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Whether friends were present or absent, she had always a kind smile for him and was attentive to his pleasure and comfort. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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