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friend

/frend/US // frɛnd //UK // (frɛnd) //

朋友,友人,朋友们,好友

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
    • : a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter friends of the Boston Symphony.
    • : a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile: Who goes there? Friend or foe?
    • : a member of the same nation, party, etc.
    • : Friend, a member of the Society of Friends; a Quaker: The religious practices of Friends are founded in direct communion with God.
    • : a person associated with another as a contact on a social media website: We've never met, but we're Facebook friends.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Rare. to befriend.
    • : to add to one's list of contacts on a social media website: I just friended a couple of guys in my class.

Phrases

  • friend in court
  • fair-weather friend
  • make friends

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Those who live off campus and don’t plan on coming back to visit campus to, say, hang out with their friends don’t have to get tested.

  • Paul brushed him off because several friends had already started the process to see if they could be his donor, but each backed out.

  • Trina advised those watching to check in with their friends who appear to be okay.

  • Among other things, McCarthy said investigators learned that Ziona and LeBlond had been friends since the two were in middle school and that they remained friends after Ziona transitioned as a woman.

  • A couple years ago my friends were comparing step counts when they asked about mine.

  • In an email exchange a friend said many had repeated this same succinct review but they could never elaborate.

  • The two strengthened ties over the years and now Krauss considers Epstein a “close” and “considerate” friend.

  • What matters is being honest, humble, and a faithful and loyal friend, father and member of your community.

  • Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.

  • The gentleman was listed as Orthodox and kosher, which is way too religious for my friend whose JSwipe account I was test-driving.

  • Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.

  • The blood that accused his friend in his heart, rushed to his face, when he repeated what had been told him.

  • It is then we make him our friend, which sets us above the envy and contempt of wicked men.

  • Ripperda accompanied this unexpected refusal, with a laboured epistle to his imperial friend.

  • A friend and companion meeting together in season, but above them both is a wife with her husband.

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