FRIEND

Pronunciation (US):

• FRIEND (noun)
  The noun FRIEND has 5 senses:

1. a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
2. an associate who provides assistance
3. a person with whom you are acquainted
4. a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
5. a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)

  Familiarity information: FRIEND used as a noun is common.

• FRIEND (noun)

Meaning:

A person you know well and regard with affection and trust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

he was my best friend at the university

Hypernyms ("friend" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "friend"):

flatmate (an associate who shares an apartment with you)

girlfriend (any female friend)

light (a person regarded very fondly)

mate (informal term for a friend of the same sex)

roomie; roommate; roomy (an associate who shares a room with you)

confidant; intimate (someone to whom private matters are confided)

associate; companion; comrade; familiar; fellow (a person who is frequently in the company of another)

brother; buddy; chum; crony; pal; sidekick (a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities)

brother; comrade (used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement)

best friend (the one friend who is closest to you)

amigo (a friend or comrade)

alter ego (a very close and trusted friend who seems almost a part of yourself)

schoolfriend (a friend who attends the same school)

Instance hyponyms:

Phintias; Pythias (friend of Damon; Phintias (according to legend) was condemned to death by Dionysius the Elder and asked a respite to put his affairs in order; Damon pledged his life for the return of his friend; when Phintias returned in time the tyrant released them both (4th century BC))

Damon (the friend of Phintias who pledged his life that Phintias would return (4th century BC))

Damon and Pythias ((Greek mythology) according to a Greek legend: when Pythias was sentenced to be executed Damon took his place to allow Pythias to get his affairs in order; when Pythias returned in time to save Damon the king was so impressed that he let them both live)

Meaning:

An associate who provides assistance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ally; friend

Context examples:

he's a good ally in fight / they were friends of the workers

Hypernyms ("friend" is a kind of...):

associate (a person who joins with others in some activity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "friend"):

blood brother (a male sworn (usually by a ceremony involving the mingling of blood) to treat another as his brother)

Antonym:

foe (a personal enemy)

Meaning:

A person with whom you are acquainted

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

acquaintance; friend

Context examples:

I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances / we are friends of the family

Hypernyms ("friend" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "friend"):

class fellow; classmate; schoolfellow; schoolmate (an acquaintance that you go to school with)

pickup (a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships)

messmate ((nautical) an associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship))

homeboy (a male friend from your neighborhood or hometown)

end man (a man at one end of a row of people)

connection ((usually plural) a person who is influential and to whom you are connected in some way (as by family or friendship))

campmate (someone who lives in the same camp you do)

bunkmate (someone who occupies the same sleeping quarters as yourself)

Meaning:

A person who backs a politician or a team etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

admirer; booster; protagonist; supporter; champion; friend

Context examples:

all their supporters came out for the game / they are friends of the library

Hypernyms ("friend" is a kind of...):

advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "friend"):

Graecophile; philhellene; philhellenist (an admirer of Greece and everything Greek)

mainstay; pillar (a prominent supporter)

Roundhead (a supporter of parliament and Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War)

seconder (someone who endorses a motion or petition as a necessary preliminary to a discussion or vote)

Shavian (an admirer of G. B. Shaw or his works)

endorser; indorser; ratifier; subscriber (someone who expresses strong approval)

sympathiser; sympathizer; well-wisher (someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful)

toaster; wassailer (someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the health of success of someone or some venture)

maintainer; sustainer; upholder (someone who upholds or maintains)

verifier; voucher (someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement)

New Dealer (a supporter of the economic policies in the United States known as the New Deal)

loyalist; stalwart (a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt))

anglophil; anglophile (an admirer of England and things English)

believer; truster (a supporter who accepts something as true)

Boswell (a devoted admirer and recorder of another's words and deeds)

cheerleader (an enthusiastic and vocal supporter)

Confederate (a supporter of the Confederate States of America)

enthusiast; partisan; partizan (an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity)

Francophil; Francophile (an admirer of France and everything French)

free trader (an advocate of unrestricted international trade)

functionalist (an adherent of functionalism)

Jacobite (a supporter of James II after he was overthrown or a supporter of the Stuarts)

Whig (a supporter of the American Revolution)

Meaning:

A member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Quaker; Friend

Hypernyms ("Friend" is a kind of...):

Christian (a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination)

Instance hyponyms:

Penn; William Penn (Englishman and Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania (1644-1718))

Holonyms ("Friend" is a member of...):

Quakers; Religious Society of Friends; Society of Friends (a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers)