friend
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Is friend a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of friend?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.Examples: "Fruit is your friend."informal
2. (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.Examples: "You’d better watch it, friend."Synonyms: buster, mate, pal, buddy, sonnycolloquialironic
3. (object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.Examples: "But don't take the following sections as an endorsement of friends. Top C++ programmers avoid using friends unless absolutely necessary."; "In that case, the function needn't (and shouldn't) be a friend."; "To make a function be a friend to a class, the reserved word friend precedes the function prototype[…]"
4. (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.Examples: "Since they were introduced in the 1970s, friends have revolutionized climbing, making protection possible in previously impossible places […]"
5. (euphemistic) A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.Examples: "Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue ; Nor never come in visard to my friend"; "Time has been, when a gentleman wanted a friend, I could supply him with choice in an hour; but the market is spoiled, and a body might as soon produce a hare or a partridge […]"; "I met your friend. She's very nice, what can I say?"Synonyms: lovereuphemistic
6. (Scotland, obsolete) A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.Examples: "Friends agree best at a distance."; "Make friends of framet folk."; "He was not a drop's blood to me, though him and my wife were far-out friends."Scotlandobsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.Examples: "Lo sluggish Knight the victors happie pray: / So fortune friends the bold [...]."; "’Tis true, the stuff I bring for sale Is not so brisk a brew as ale: Out of a stem that scored the hand I wrung it in a weary land. But take it: if the smack is sour, The better for the embittered hour; It should do good to heart and head When your soul is in my soul’s stead; And I will friend you, if I may, In the dark and cloudy day."obsoletetransitive
2. (transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.Examples: "One of the most used features of MySpace is the practice that is nicknamed "friending." If you "friend" someone, then that person is added to your MySpace friends list, and you are added to their friends list."; "The two distributions which exhibited this property were in response to the statements, “I am careful about who I friend,” and, “If someone friends me, I will friend them.” (Figure 3)."; "I use Native, that’s what other Native people on Facebook use. I have 660 friends. Tons of Native friends in my feed. Most of my friends, though, are people I don’t know, who’d happily friended me upon request."Antonyms: defriend, unfriendtransitive
noun (English)
1. (rock-climbing) Brand name of a spring-loaded camming device, now used to refer to any such device, often uncapitalized, as friend.
Definition source: Wiktionary