friend

CEFRA1

/fɹɛnd/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A person you know, like, and trust.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.

Examples

  • She was a friend and mentor to many young actors.

  • This is my friend Rachel. We went to high school together.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /frɪnd/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An associate who provides assistance; patron, mentor.

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

  3. A person who backs or supports something.

More examples

In context

  • You're a friend of Tom's, eh?

  • ...if you consider any man a friend whom you do not trust as you trust yourself, you are mightily mistaken and you do not sufficiently understand what true friendship means.

  • ...he who looks upon a true friend, looks, as it were, upon a sort of image of himself. Wherefore friends, though absent, are at hand; though in need, yet abound; though weak, are strong; and—harder saying still—though dead, are yet alive; so great is the est...

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Origin

noun

From Middle English freend, frend, frende, freynde, friend, frind, frond, frund, vrend, vryend, from Old English frēond, frīond (“friend”, literally “loving [one], lover”), from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“friend, loved one”), from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to please; to love”), roughly equivalent to free + -nd. See also Friday. Cognates Cognate with Scots freend (“friend”), Yola friend, vriene (“friend”), North Frisian frinj, frün (“friend”), Saterland Frisian Fjund, Früünd (“friend”), West Frisian freon, freondinne (“friend”), Cimbrian bròint, vròint (“friend”), Dutch vriend (“friend”), German Freund (“friend”), German Low German Fründ (“friend, relati...