Friend : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Friend	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Friend
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
friend n a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; "he was my best friend at the university" an associate who provides cooperation or assistance; "he's a good ally in fight" Synonym(s): ally, friend Antonym(s): enemy, foe a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family" Synonym(s): acquaintance, friend Antonym(s): alien, stranger, unknown a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library" Synonym(s): supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster, friend a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers) Synonym(s): Friend, Quaker
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Friend \Friend\ (fr[ecr]nd), n. [OR. frend, freond, AS. fre[a2]nd, prop. p. pr. of fre[a2]n, fre[a2]gan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. fr[91]ndi kinsman, Sw. fr[84]nde. Goth. frij[omac]nds friend, frij[omac]n to love. [root]83. See {Free}, and cf. {Fiend}.] 1. One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant. Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. --Dryden. A friend that sticketh closer than a brother. --Prov. xviii. 24. 2. One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address. Friend, how camest thou in hither? --Matt. xxii. 12. 3. One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution. 4. One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers. America was first visited by Friends in 1656. --T. Chase. 5. A paramour of either sex. [Obs.] --Shak. {A friend} {at court [or] in court}, one disposed to act as a friend in a place of special opportunity or influence. {To be friends with}, to have friendly relations with. [bd]He's . . . friends with C[91]sar.[b8] --Shak. {To make friends with}, to become reconciled to or on friendly terms with. [bd]Having now made friends with the Athenians.[b8] --Jowett (Thucyd.).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Friend \Friend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Friended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Friending}.] To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend. [Obs.] Fortune friends the bold. --Spenser.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Friend, KS Zip code(s): 67871 Friend, NE (city, FIPS 17775) Location: 40.65107 N, 97.28405 W Population (1990): 1111 (483 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68359 Friend, OR Zip code(s): 97021
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Friend Relationship between classes in the language C++.