Friendship
['fren(d)ʃɪp] or ['frɛndʃɪp]
Definition
(n.) The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.
(n.) Kindly aid; help; assistance,
(n.) Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Friendliness, amity, amicableness, fellowship, attachment, intimacy.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FRIEND]
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather but only one in foul.
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Examples
- Maybe her kisses were only signs of friendship. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- But his coming for me as he did, with such active, such ready friendship, is enough to prove him one of the worthiest of men. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- It was an ideal friendship, incomparably valuable for Davy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In this dear intercourse, love, in the guise of enthusiastic friendship, infused more and more of his omnipotent spirit. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I am as sure of that, Wemmick, as you can be, and I thank you most earnestly for all your interest and friendship. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He has been so unlucky as to lose _your_ friendship, replied Elizabeth with emphasis, and in a manner which he is likely to suffer from all his life. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- You may have a friendship for a man, while he is almost indifferent to you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I was an untaught shepherd-boy, when Adrian deigned to confer on me his friendship. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It will help in the consummation of man’s loftiest dreams of world friendship and world peace. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These were instances of friendship for which any man might reasonably feel most grateful. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It was so long since Fanny had had any letter from her, that she had some reason to think lightly of the friendship which had been so dwelt on. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- She seems to have what I never saw in any woman before--a fountain of friendship towards men--a man can make a friend of her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Now the pleasure of a stranger, for whom we have no friendship, pleases us only by sympathy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This was the first commencement of my friendship with Adrian, and I must commemorate this day as the most fortunate of my life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It is not friendship, for whenever they meet they quarrel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They do not belong to any body, and they seem to have no close personal friendships among each other. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But if Mr Lammle were prone to be jealous of his dear Sophronia's friendships, he would be jealous of her feeling towards Miss Podsnap. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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