friend

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
2. An associate who provides assistance; patron, mentor.
3. A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
4. A person who backs or supports something.
5. (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
6. (colloquial, ironic) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
7. A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
8. A spring-loaded camming device.
9. (euphemistic) A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
10. (Scotland, obsolete) A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.
11. (in-plural) Used to refer collectively to a group of associated individuals, especially those comprising a cast, company, or crew

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
2. (transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.

Sinonieme

companion

comrade

mate

🧉

pal

buddy

acquaintance

partner

associate

colleague

fellow

ally

chum

lover

❤️

supporter

well-wisher

crony

brother

👨‍👦

boyfriend

girlfriend

confidant

friendship

fellow-thinker

playmate

relative

intimate

follower

adherent

playfellow

sister

👩‍👧

booster

love

❤️

fan

close friend

cobber

disciple

protagonist

advocate

patron

neighbour

amigo

participant

peer

co-worker

helper

cousin

guest

consort

gang

girl

👧

compeer

Vertalings

ami

Freund

amigo

amico

vriend

Freundin

amigo

φίλος

arkadaş

amic

amie

amicus

camarade

copain

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/fɹɛnd/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: frend

Geërf van Old English: frēond

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: Fjund

Verwante met Fries: freon

Verwante met Nederlands: vriend

Verwante met Nederduits: Frund

Verwante met Luxemburgs: Frënd

Verwante met Duits: Freund

Verwante met Deens: frænde

Verwante met Sweeds: frände

Verwante met Yslands: frændi

Verwante met Wallies: ffrind

Verwante met Goties: 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃

Verwante met Russies: прия́тель

Verwante met Sanskrit: प्रिय

In summary

From Middle English frend, freend, from Old English frēond (“friend”, literally “loving [one], lover”), from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“lover, friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to love”), roughly equivalent to free + -nd.
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”), Luxembourgish Frënd (“friend”), Vilamovian fraeind, frajnd (“friend”), Yiddish פֿרײַנד (fraynd, “friend”), Danish frænde (“kinsman”), Faroese, Icelandic frændi (“kinsman”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk frende (“relative”), Swedish frände (“kinsman, relative”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃 (frijōnds, “friend”). More at free.
Akin to Russian прия́тель (prijátelʹ, “friend”), Romanian prieten, and Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).

Sinne

But the boy never took his eye off his new friend .

His new friend pushed the owner aside , and pulled the boy outside with him .

He moved to Berlin to be close to his friend , producer Moses Schneider .

" He lives at the Al-Fayoum oasis ," his friend had said .

Gershwin dedicated his Preludes to friend and musical advisor Bill Daly .