Friend
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
friend/frend/
▶noun
- 1 a person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically one exclusive of sexual or family relations.
■ used in polite address to an acquaintance or stranger.
- 2 a familiar or helpful thing.
- 3 a person who supports a particular cause or organization: the Friends of the Welsh National Opera.
- 4 (in battle) an ally.
- 5 (Friend) a member of the Religious Society of Friends; a Quaker.
– phrases
be (or make) friends with be (or become) on friendly terms with.
a friend at court a person in a position to use their influence on one's behalf.
be (or make) friends with be (or become) on friendly terms with.
a friend at court a person in a position to use their influence on one's behalf.
– derivatives
friendless adjective.
friendless adjective.
'Friend' also found in these Oxford entries:
alter ego
- amicable
- amicus
- amigo
- amity
- apposition
- aunt
- befriend
- bereave
- best man
- boon companion
- bosom
- buddy
- bully
- butty
- call
- china
- chum
- cobber
- compadre
- crony
- enemy
- fair-weather friend
- false friend
- familiar
- fidus Achates
- FOAF
- free
- friend
- friendly
- friend of Dorothy
- gaucho
- girlfriend
- goombah
- gossip
- groomsman
- intimate
- Judas
- lonely hearts
- lose
- main man
- mate
- mourner
- mucker
- mutual
- oppo
- our
- pal
- playmate
- privy
