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 cooperation or assistance; "he's a
       good ally in fight" [syn: ally, friend] [ant: enemy,
       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, friend] [ant:
       alien, stranger, unknown]
    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, friend]
    5: a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by
       George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
       [syn: Friend, Quaker]

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[aum]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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Friend, NE -- U.S. city in Nebraska
   Population (2000):    1174
   Housing Units (2000): 516
   Land area (2000):     0.796804 sq. miles (2.063713 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.796804 sq. miles (2.063713 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            17775
   Located within:       Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
   Location:             40.652095 N, 97.285731 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     68359
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Friend, NE
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