Word Finder - friends

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A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.

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John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college.   Trust is important between friends.   I used to find it hard to make friends when I was shy.

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An associate who provides assistance.

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The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend.   The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.

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A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.

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a friend of a friend;  I added him as a friend on Facebook, but I hardly know him.

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A person who backs or supports something.

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I’m not a friend of cheap wine.

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An object or idea that can be used for good.

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Wiktionary is your friend.

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(used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.

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You’d better watch it, friend.

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A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.

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A spring-loaded camming device.

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A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.

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A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.

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Friends agree best at a distance.

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To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.

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To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.

I parked it at a friends' house.

That's all my friends talk about.

I've got friends, who get me stuff every ones in a while but it's not always easy.

I thought, if you wouldn't talk, your friends would.

I take all my other friends to see this king-tree.

I hope to be friends with her.

All of my friends will be so surprised and glad.

My mother and several of my friends said they would help me with the establishment of a public library.

Some relatives and dear old friends were with me through the day.

Maybe friends didn't let friends drive drunk, but how did they stop them when there were so many?

And now, my friends, please to excuse My lisping and my stammers; I, for this once, have done my best, And so--I'll make my manners.

I wrote to my friends about the work and enlisted their sympathy.

Quinn spent the whole time you were pregnant talking about him and me becoming friends with benefits.

I'm good friends with a very troubled man.

They came while we were eating breakfast, and my friends enjoyed them with me.

The two young men, the student and the officer, friends from childhood, were of the same age and both handsome fellows, though not alike.

Your friends in Washington didn't feel the need to do any explaining.

It took me some time to appreciate the fact that my new friends were blind.

I have many far-off friends whom I have never seen.

She had always been a recluse at heart, often declining a social outing with her friends so that she could be alone with a book or her writing.

When Betsy mentioned telling the After people, a thought struck me that the death of Owen Bryce, once known to our friends at After would probably tie me directly to the tipster as well.

I am giving you everything, my friends, and I beg you to take everything, all our grain, so that you may not suffer want!

In 1807 he suddenly made friends with him, but in 1811 they again quarreled and again began killing many people.

Any of our infrequent visitors or friends asking about the operation quickly developed a bleary look when we tried to explain what we did for a living.

She meant what she said; she had no friends, but a long time ago, she'd had one whose family had a summer cottage near the coast.

The two personages - the "old and foolish king" and the "poor and wise youth" - have been supposed (by Winckler) to be Antiochus Epiphanes (175-164 B.C.) and Demetrius (162-150 B.C.), or (by Haupt) Antiochus and the impostor Alexander Balas (150-146 B.C.), or (by others) Demetrius and Alexander; in favour of Alexander as the "youth" it may be said that he was of obscure origin, was at first popular, and was later abandoned by his friends.

Then he tied a rope around his waist and said to his friends, Take hold of the other end, boys.

She greeted them with a big smile, hugging each of them as if they were old friends she hadn't seen in a decade.

Betsy and Martha, now practically best friends, conspired together against the rest of us until they owned most of the board.

He had slayed my friends in their own town, their own home, in their own bed.

Your friends have been dead some time, probably from when you told me they had gone into hiding.

It's not finished if you, you're wife and California friends are still alive.

He's been stalking us all the way from New Hampshire where he killed two friends of ours.

He went to see her yesterday, and he asked me to stop by and meet all her friends tonight.

Their insistence on the personal aspect of religious experience made it impossible for Friends to countenance the setting apart of any man or building for the purpose of divine worship to the exclusion of all others.

During the 19th century the interests of Friends became widened and they are no longer a close community.

I made friends with many people on the train.

All the friends I loved best, except one, have remained my own to the present time.

I thought we were friends.

We're best friends, now.

Him hugging her like they were old friends.

Not sure we can be friends after that.

Toby frowned, worried as much about his human charge as his Immortal friends.

How did you and Gabriel become friends?

I knew these things were your friends.

Never wanted to try to make friends or anything?

It is of interest to note that, although John Bunyan was bitterly opposed to Quakers, his friends, on hearing of the petition contemplated by them, requested them to insert his name on the list, and in this way he gained his freedom.

None of them are now reserved exclusively for the children of Friends.

Much controversy ensued, and a certain number of Friends (Beaconites as they are sometimes called) departed from the parent stock.

There is not now the sharp distinction which formerly existed between Friends and other non-sacerdotal evangelical bodies; these have, in theory at least, largely accepted the spiritual message of Quakerism.