name
Meaning 1
A surname transferred from the common noun.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
A surname transferred from the common noun.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Terry Township, Finney County, Kansas.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Saline County, Nebraska, named after Charles E. Friend.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A place in the United States:
A ghost town in Wasco County, Oregon, named after George J. Friend.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An associate who provides assistance; patron, mentor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A person who backs or supports something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An object or idea that can be used for good.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Used as a form of address when warning someone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, ironic
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: object-oriented programming
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A spring-loaded camming device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: climbing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, obsolete
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Used to refer collectively to a group of associated individuals, especially those comprising a cast, company, or crew
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural
Qualifier: usually preceded by "and"
Synonyms: company, et al.
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A Quaker; a member of the Society of Friends. (See also Friends.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Brand name of a spring-loaded camming device, now used to refer to any such device, often uncapitalized, as friend.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: rock-climbing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: defriend, unfriend
noun
a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: Quaker
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Christian
Narrower terms: Penn, William Penn
noun
a person with whom you are acquainted
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: acquaintance
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: bunkmate, campmate, connection, end man, homeboy, messmate, pickup, schoolmate, classmate, schoolfellow, class fellow
noun
an associate who provides cooperation or assistance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: ally
Antonyms: foe
Broader terms: associate
Narrower terms: blood brother
noun
a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: alter ego, amigo, best friend, brother, comrade, buddy, chum, crony, pal, sidekick, companion, fellow, familiar, associate, confidant, intimate, flatmate, girlfriend, light, mate, roommate, roomie, roomy, schoolfriend, Damon and Pythias, Damon, Phintias, Pythias
noun
a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent
Narrower terms: anglophile, anglophil, believer, truster, Boswell, cheerleader, Confederate, corporatist, enthusiast, partisan, partizan, Francophile, Francophil, free trader, functionalist, Jacobite, loyalist, stalwart, New Dealer, philhellene, philhellenist, Graecophile, pillar, mainstay, Roundhead, seconder, Shavian, subscriber, endorser, indorser, ratifier, sympathizer, sympathiser, well-wisher, toaster, wassailer, upholder, maintainer, sustainer, voucher, verifier, Whig
History
English surname, from the noun friend, or adaptations of it in other languages such as German Freund, Dutch Vriend, Slovene Prijatelj.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *preyH- Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *priHós Proto-Germanic *frijōną Proto-Germanic *frijōndz Proto-West Germanic *friund Old English frēond Middle English frend English friend From Middle English freend, frend, frende, freynde, friend, frind, frond, frund, vrend, vryend, from Old English frēond, frīond (“friend”, literally “loving [one], lover”), from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“friend, loved one”), from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to please; to love”), roughly equivalent to free + -nd. See also Friday. Cognates Cognate with Scots freend (“friend”), Yola friend, vriene (“friend”), North Frisian frinj, frün (“friend”), Saterland Frisian Fjund, Früünd (“friend”), West Frisian freon, freondinne (“friend”), Cimbrian bròint, vròint (“friend”), Dutch vriend (“friend”), German Freund (“friend”), German Low German Fründ (“friend, relative”), Limburgish vröndj (“friend”), Luxembourgish Frënd (“friend”), Vilamovian fraeind, frajnd (“friend”), Yiddish פֿרײַנד (fraynd, “friend”), Danish frænde (“kinsman”), Faroese and Icelandic frændi (“kinsman”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk frende (“relative”), Swedish frände (“kinsman, relative”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃 (frijōnds, “friend”); also Welsh rhydd (“free”), Latin proprius (“own, proper”), Belarusian пры́яцель (prýjacjelʹ, “friend”), Bulgarian прия́тел (prijátel, “male friend”), Czech přítel (“friend; supporter; lover”), Macedonian при́јател (príjatel, “friend, mate, pal”), Polish przyjaciel, przyjáciel (“friend; lover”), Russian прия́тель (prijátelʹ, “friend; buddy, mate, pal”), Serbo-Croatian при̏јатељ, prȉjatelj (“friend”), Slovak priateľ (“friend; supporter”), Slovene prijatelj (“friend; companion; chum”), Ukrainian при́ятель (prýjatelʹ, “friend; buddy, pal”), Avestan 𐬟𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (friia, “good, pleasant”), Persian فری (fari, “beloved, dear; pleasing”), Sanskrit प्रिय (priya, “beloved; own, wonted”). More at free.
Across languages
925 source translations are retained for this English entry.