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friend English

Meaning friend meaning

What does friend mean?
Definitions in simple English

friend

Two people are friends of each other if they like being together and they like helping each other, but are not related. I only have three close friends. She's been a friend of mine for many years. Some friends are coming to our house for dinner tonight. I stayed awake until the middle of the night talking with some friends. Our house burned down, but some friends helped us build a new one.

friend

a person you know well and regard with affection and trust he was my best friend at the university (= ally) an associate who provides cooperation or assistance he's a good ally in fight (= acquaintance) a person with whom you are acquainted I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances we are friends of the family (= supporter) a person who backs a politician or a team etc all their supporters came out for the game they are friends of the library

Friend

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

Synonyms friend synonyms

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Friend English » English

Quaker well-wisher valentine friend crony

Topics friend topics

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Examples friend examples

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Simple sentences

I have a friend whose father is a famous pianist.
I met a friend of Mary's.
Bob is my friend.
Waiting for a bus, I met my friend.
Jack bought a present for his friend.
What time did your friend go home?
When did your friend leave for America?
If your friend reminds you kindly of your faults, take what he says not only pleasantly, but thankfully.
An old friend of mine visited yesterday.
I have a friend who is a pilot.
I have a friend whose father is a famous novelist.
My friend died from a wound.
I look on him as my best friend.
This is my friend Rachel. We went to high school together.
Your loving friend.
You have a good friend in me.
I ran across an old friend near the bank.
Lend your money and lose your friend.
I ran into an old friend.
You are my best friend.
He met his friend while bathing in the sea.
I ran into an old friend of mine outside the station.
I got a letter from a friend of mine in London.
Ricky, this is my friend Suzuki.
You're a friend of Tom's, eh?
You are the only man in the world that I can call my friend.
It happened that I saw my friend walking in the distance.
My old friend dropped in at my house.
On my way home, I came across an old friend.
On arriving at the station, I called a friend of mine.
I took shelter under my friend's umbrella.

Movie subtitles

Where is your friend?
Your friend is quite interesting, having only initials for a name.
It's like, like I'm finally gonna have a best friend.
I'm your best friend.
Goodnight, best friend!
I'm sorry guys, he's my best friend!
May- And I'm not your best friend!
I texted my friend the story of Joseph Smith's battle with diarrhea, and he said everyone in his village has read it.
Now I consider Daniel a friend.
This is my friend Ogdee.
Ogdee is my old friend from high school.
He was your friend?
And your friend...you did the best you could for him.
You don't know what it's like sitting there helpless while your best friend just gets sicker and sicker.
I don't know that friend. - He's a new one.
She's your friend, she'll listen to you.
My father wants to give me to a friend of his.
But in vain. His troops were annihilated, thanks to my friend, Colonel Yusuf.
Get to the point, my friend.
Our friend Fournel is surveying Algeria's mineral resources. - He sent his report.
I come as a friend.
Wasn't he a friend?
So not only did I lose my wife, I lost my best friend and my job.
Oh, and that lady lawyer friend of yours.
Thank you for being my friend.
That is within the realm of possibility, I admit. But I've got an old friend on the U.N.'s Peace Observation Committee, so don't worry.
Gotta give you props for having more than one brain cell, my friend, but you still don't get it, do you?
I can't leave my friend to die.
So, anyway, my cousin's best friend's older brother's girlfriend's sister is gonna be bringing some by this afternoon, and I know it sounds a little stupid, but I'm kind of nervous to pick them up myself.
I guess your cousin's best friend's older brother's girlfriend's sister ripped us off.
Tell him I don't like to see a friend of mine so unhappy, so one more catch, I'll cut him loose.
I guess I felt bad that his supposed friend was betraying him and what my brother was doing to him, but I was just trying to do him a favour.
But I guess it never occurred to me that my best friend would betray me.
We're all really busted up about how things went down with Johnny. I know he's a friend of yours, but he's a friend of ours too.
Look, he's not my friend anymore.
You fucking screwed over your best friend.
He's not my friend anymore.
My friend was lying to my face and going behind my back. Yeah.
I'm just talking to my friend, Nick.
My friend, they already make our lives miserable.
Hello, I'm a friend.

News and current affairs

As one scientist friend puts it: if you are driving on a mountain road, approaching a cliff, in a car whose brakes may fail, and a fog bank rolls in, should you drive more or less cautiously?
Indeed, many EU members have been in a race with each other to see who will be Russia's closest friend in the Union.
Clearly, the Arab world was changing, and the US was suddenly no longer an enemy, but a friend.
BRUSSELS - There is a saying, too often used in interpreting international relations, that my enemy's enemy is my friend.
But, as one Indian friend explained to me, this is mainly symbolic politics for India's Left.
When the world was divided into two camps during the Cold War, deciding who was an enemy and who a friend seemed easy.
My friend Boris was leaving my house drunk. So I suggested that he not drive.
No friend of the army, he pursued rogue elements within the military in a famous investigation several years ago.
BRUSSELS - Friend or foe, or something uneasily in-between?
Will Pope Benedict XVI achieve the breakthrough that his friend and predecessor failed to realize?
Murdoch's comments are in keeping with views expressed by his friend, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, and Abbott's current administration.
Following Prime Minister David Cameron's recent election victory in the United Kingdom, my good friend Lord Norman Lamont, a former chancellor of the exchequer, remarked that the UK economy's recovery supports our government's position.
If you lend to your friend, he will no longer be your friend.
His friend, a young Iraqi actress named Zahra Zubaidi, had to flee the Middle East after having played a rape victim in the Brian de Palma film Redacted; she has since emigrated to New York.
HAIFA - How do you tell a true friend?
That is the kind of friend I want at my side, not one who automatically approves of whatever I do, declares his love for me, and accepts me as I am.
India's nationalist leader and first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, was a close friend of the Burmese nationalist hero Aung San, whose daughter, the Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, studied in New Delhi.
Even China, as it poses as Russia's friend and patron, should consider the consequences for itself of such a risk.
It isn't much better if you and a friend write each other checks, or sell each other houses.
He is a grandee, a mover and shaker in the academic and media world, a friend of President Barack Obama.
In 1950, Kundera, then a 20-year-old Communist, reportedly denounced to the criminal police as a Western spy a man he had never met - a friend of his friend's girlfriend.
FLORENCE - Dean Acheson, US President Harry Truman's Secretary of State, liked to quote a friend who said that being in government made him scared, but that being out of it made him worried.

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