Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being friends.
- noun A friendly relationship.
- noun Friendliness; good will.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Mutual liking and regard between persons, irreepective of sex; mutual interest based on intimate acquaintance and esteem; the feeling that moves persons to seek each other's society or to promote each other's welfare.
- noun Desire for intercourse with or the welfare of another or others; personal favor or good will; amicable feeling or regard.
- noun Congenial union of one with another or others; an individual relation of friendliness: as, to contract a friendship with a person: often in the plural.
- noun An act of kindness or friendliness; friendly aid; help; relief.
- noun Conformity; affinity; correspondence.
- noun Synonyms Amity, fellowship, companionship, alliance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.
- noun obsolete Kindly aid; help; assistance
- noun obsolete Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The
condition of beingfriends . - noun countable A
friendly relationship . - noun uncountable
Good will .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being friends (or friendly)
Etymologies
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Examples
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To have a friend, to look at him, to follow him with your eyes, to admire him in friendship, is to know in a more intense way, already injured, always insistent, and more and more unforgettable, that one of the two of you will inevitably see the other die.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Work of Mourning, by Jacques Derrida Robert D. Stolorow 2010
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To have a friend, to look at him, to follow him with your eyes, to admire him in friendship, is to know in a more intense way, already injured, always insistent, and more and more unforgettable, that one of the two of you will inevitably see the other die.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Work of Mourning, by Jacques Derrida Robert D. Stolorow 2010
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To have a friend, to look at him, to follow him with your eyes, to admire him in friendship, is to know in a more intense way, already injured, always insistent, and more and more unforgettable, that one of the two of you will inevitably see the other die.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Work of Mourning, by Jacques Derrida Robert D. Stolorow 2010
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And so one might by an extension of the term friendship say that goodwill is inactive friendship, though when it is prolonged and reaches the point of intimacy it becomes friendship-not the friendship based on utility nor that based on pleasure; for goodwill too does not arise on those terms.
The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002
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And so one might by an extension of the term friendship say that goodwill is inactive friendship, though when it is prolonged and reaches the point of intimacy it becomes friendship-not the friendship based on utility nor that based on pleasure; for goodwill too does not arise on those terms.
The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS Aristotle 1865
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He also led what he called a "friendship dance," in which skiers and onlookers joined hands and moved in a circle.
Snow Job: Ski Resorts Call On Higher Authorities to Save Season Ben Cohen 2012
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But your friendship is the currency we really thrive on.
Global Voices in English » Global Voices Advocacy Wins Zemanta Blog Contest 2009
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Maybe you need time apart (what I call a friendship sabbatical) to realize how much you mean to each other.
Dr. Irene S. Levine: The dirty little secret most women don't talk about 2010
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They do what they call friendship and cooperation, which basically is building soccer stadiums and things like that, and they have official state visits where they profess deep long-term relationships with their new friends.
The Shadow Market Eric J.Weiner 2010
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Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed.
bilby commented on the word friendship
Same context: sandworm.
That's one of the saddest things I have ever discovered on Weirdnik.
October 30, 2014
qms commented on the word friendship
Do not the humble beast offend.
His modest hopes instead, commend.
For cannot a sandworm
In amity stand firm
And wriggle sweetly with a friend?
October 30, 2014