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Definition friend

Etymology

From Middle English frend, freend, from Old English fr?ond (“friend, relative, lover”, literally “loving[-one]”), from Proto-Germanic *frij?ndz (“lover, friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *pr?y-, *pr?y- (“to like, love”), equivalent to free +‎ -nd. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Früünd (“friend”), West Frisian freon, froen, freondinne (“friend”), Dutch vriend (“friend”), Low German Frund, Fründ (“friend, relative”), German Freund (“friend”), Danish frænde (“kinsman”), Swedish frände (“kinsman, relative”), Icelandic frændi (“kinsman”), Gothic ???????? (frij?nds, “friend”). More at free.

Noun

friend (plural friends)

1. A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
2. A boyfriend or girlfriend.
3. An associate who provides assistance.
4. A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted
5. A person who backs or supports something.
6. (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
7. (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
8. (object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
9. (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
10. (obsolete) A paramour of either sex.
11. (Scotland, obsolete) A relative.

Verb

friend (third-person singular simple present friends, present participle friending, simple past and past participle friended)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
2. (transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.

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