Found 4 items, similar to Friend.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: friend
teman
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: friend
kawan, konco, rekanan, sahabat
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: friend
friend
n 1: a person you know well and regard with affection and trust;
“he was my best friend at the university”
2: an associate who provides assistance;
“he's a good ally in
fight”;
“they were friends of the workers” [syn:
ally]
[ant:
foe]
3: a person with whom you are acquainted;
“I have trouble
remembering the names of all my acquaintances”;
“we are
friends of the family” [syn:
acquaintance]
4: a person who backs a politician or a team etc.;
“all their
supporters came out for the game”;
“they are friends of
the library” [syn:
supporter,
protagonist,
champion,
admirer,
booster]
5: a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by
George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves
Quakers) [syn:
Quaker]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Friend
Friend
\Friend\ (fr[e^]nd), n. [OR. frend, freond, AS.
fre['o]nd, prop. p. pr. of fre['o]n, fre['o]gan, to love;
akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love,
OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. fr[ae]ndi kinsman, Sw.
fr["a]nde. Goth. frij[=o]nds friend, frij[=o]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 and
welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes,
an attendant.
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Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
--Dryden.
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A friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
--Prov. xviii.
24.
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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.
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Friend, how camest thou in hither? --Matt. xxii.
12.
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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.
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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.
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America was first visited by Friends in 1656. --T.
Chase.
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5. A paramour of either sex. [Obs.] --Shak.
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A friend at court or
A friend 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. ``He's
. . . friends with C[ae]sar.'' --Shak.
To make friends with, to become reconciled to or on
friendly terms with.
“Having now made friends with the
Athenians.” --Jowett (Thucyd.).
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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.]
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Fortune friends the bold. --Spenser.
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