LekhoriLekhoriA person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
"[…]if you have any wish to speak openly to me as a friend, or to ask my opinion of any thing that you may have in contemplation—as a friend, indeed, you may command me.—I will hear whatever you like. I will tell you exactly what I think." "As a friend!"—repeated Mr. Knightley.—"Emma, that I fear is a word—No, I have no wish—[…]”
An associate who provides assistance; patron, mentor.
When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my little pocket with halfpence.
A Quaker; a member of the Society of Friends. (.
To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
Lo sluggish Knight the victors happie pray: / So fortune friends the bold [...].
To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
A surname transferred from the common noun.
A place in the United States:
From Middle English frend, freend, from Old English frēond (“friend”, literally “loving [one], lover”), from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“lover, friend”), from Proto-In...
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One of the most used features of MySpace is the practice that is nicknamed "friending." If you "friend" someone, then that person is added to your MySpace friends list, and you are added to their friends list.