Word Meanings - FRIEND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

freón, freógan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frændi kinsman, Sw. frände. Goth. frij friend, frij to love. sq. root83. See Free, 1. One who entertains for another

Additional info about word: FRIEND

freón, freógan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frændi kinsman, Sw. frände. Goth. frij friend, frij to love. sq. root83. See Free, 1. One who entertains for another suo Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. Dryden. A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. Prov. xviii. 24. 2. 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. Friend, how camest thou in hither Matt. xxii. 12. 3. 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. 4. 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. America was first visited by Friends in 1656. T. Chase. 5. A paramour of either sex. Shak. A friend at court or in court, one disposed to act as a friend in a place of special opportunity or influence. -- To be friends with, to have friendly relations with. "He's . . . friends with Cæsar." Shak. -- To make friends with, to become reconciled to or on friendly terms with. "Having now made friends with the Athenians." Jowett

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRIEND)

• Ally
• Friend
• companion
• supporter
• aider
• abetter
• accomplice
• assistant
• confederate
• helper
• associate
• accessory
• colleague
• coadjutor
• Associate
• Companion
• friend
• ally
• consort
• helpmate
• comrade
• partner
• Benefactor
• contributor
• upholder
• well-wisher
• favorer
• well-doer
• patron
• Fellow
• adherent
• equal
• compeer
• member
• match
• tally
• correlative

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FRIEND)

• Avoid
• abandon
• excommunicate
• blackball
• banish
• exclude

Related words: (words related to FRIEND)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• COMPANIONLESS
  Without a companion.
• CONSORTSHIP
  The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• CONSORT
  A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest,
• PATRONIZING
  Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv. Thackeray.
• TALLYHO
  1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds. 2. A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.
• PATRONYMIC
  Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.
• PATRONIZER
  One who patronizes.
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• PARTNER
  An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership. 3. pl. (more info) 1. One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: A husband or
• ACCOMPLICESHIP
  The state of being an accomplice. Sir H. Taylor.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• FELLOWSHIP
  1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
• FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
  companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
• ASSOCIATE
  1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . 2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. 3. To connect or place together in thought.
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• FRIENDSHIP
  1. 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. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• UNFRIEND
  One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• ALIMENTALLY
  So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.
• HORIZONTALLY
  In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;