Significado de friend en inglés

friend

noun [ C ]

/frend/ us

/frend/

friend noun [C] (PERSON YOU LIKE)

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a person who you know well and who you like a lot, but who is usually not a member of your family:

best friend She used to spend hours chatting on the phone to her best friend.

close friend Mira is one of my closest friends.

oldest friend She's my oldest friend - we've known each other since we were five.

family friend He's a family friend/friend of the family.

friend of This restaurant was recommended to me by a friend of mine.

We've been friends for years.

good friend of José and Pilar are good friends of ours.

good friends with We're good friends with José and Pilar.

friends with She said that she did not want to be friends with me any more.

just a good friend She said that she and Peter were just good friends (= they were not having a sexual relationship).

just a friend He told his parents that Erin was just a friend.

make a friend I've made a lot of friends in this job.

He finds it difficult to make friends.

Sinónimos

buddy  informal
chum  (FRIEND) old-fashioned informal
companion (PERSON)
crony informal disapproving
mate  (FRIEND) UK informal
mucker UK informal
pal  informal

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acquaintance

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befriend

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a person you know well and like

friendWe've been friends for years.
buddyHe's one of my dad's old war buddies.
palThe heartthrob was spotted hanging with his Hollywood pals in L.A.
mateUK He's out with his mates.

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someone who is not an enemy and who you can trust:

You don't have to pretend any more - you're among friends now.

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Is he a friend of yours ?
Come and meet my friend Laura.
Is it okay if I bring a friend to the party?
I got a call from an old college friend last night.
He's not my boyfriend - we're just good friends!

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friend noun [C] (PERSON GIVING MONEY)

someone who gives money to an arts organization or charity in order to support it:

The Friends of the Royal Academy raised £10,000 towards the cost of the exhibition.

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Expresiones

a friend in need is a friend indeed
have friends in high places
what are friends for?
with friends like you, who needs enemies?

friend

verb [ T ]

informal

/frend/ us

/frend/

to invite someone to be your friend on a social networking website:

I friended her and sent her a message.

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(Definición de friend del Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

friend | Diccionario de Inglés Americano

friend

noun [ C ]

/frend/

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a person you know well and like a lot, but who is usually not a member of your family:

I dreamed my school friends were being chased by a whale.

Today I got a call from a friend of mine.

Chloë was her best friend.

I moved to California, made friends (= became friends with people), and started dating.

Friend can also be used when you are speaking to someone:

Well, friends, I think it’s time to go.

A person or organization that is a friend to/of a group or organization helps and supports it:

The president has been no friend to small business.

The Senator was a friend of business interests.

(Definición de friend del Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Ejemplos de friend

friend

She had returned to her active schedule with friends, and volunteering.

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Their roles in friendships changed too in that they needed to determine how their friends were responding to their illness and adapt to that.

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Enthusiasm, however, can be 'overdone', as one respondent told me who, with his friends, used to laugh at the teacher who was 'trying too hard'!

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When the younger child wants to join in, the friend tells the older child to exclude the younger sibling from play.

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Another possible solution for minimising a person's dependence on family and friends outside the household is to recruit a relative to join the household.

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His friends find his presence there, but he does not recognise himself!

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The book was completed and prepared for publication by some of his friends and colleagues.

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These dimensions included spouse problems, spouse support, relative problems, relative support, friend problems, friend support, confidants and social integration.

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You see her as a fifteen-year-old, and with her female friends they have a club, they play cricket.

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He may compare the pain with that experienced by friends or relatives and have misconceptions about it.

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Spouses, friends and relatives die when a person reaches a very old age.

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Ties with close friends and/or relatives assumed greater importance for those aged 60 and older.

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These items are often referred to with the terms "false friends" or "quasi-homophones across languages".

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Some respondents regarded neighbours as friends and spent a lot of time with them.

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The opportunity structures for making friends were linked to all stages of life.

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childhood friend

Here he reconnects with his childhood friend, the head of the local nature reserve.

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close friend

In all cases, adolescents were able to name at least one close friend using these criteria.

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closest friend

This study examines one facet of autonomy development: an adolescents' ability to maintain and successfully advocate for their own viewpoint in a dyadic discussion with their closest friend.

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你喜愛的人, 朋友，友人, 自己人…

Significado de friend en inglés

friend noun [C] (PERSON YOU LIKE)

friend noun [C] (PERSON GIVING MONEY)

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