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friend
What does friend mean?
friend (noun): a person you know well and regard with affection and trust.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use friend in a sentence?
- He was my best friend at the university. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce friend?
/fɹɛnd/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does friend come from?
From Middle English freend, frend, frende, freynde, friend, frind, frond, frund, vrend, vryend, from Old English frēond, frīond (“friend”, literally “loving, lover”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to friend
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
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a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
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