friend
/fɹɛnd/ sustantivo A1En español: amigo, amiga, chochera, amistad
- A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. · John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college.· Trust is important between friends.
- An associate who provides assistance; patron, mentor. · The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend. The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.
- A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted. · a friend of a friend· I added him as a friend on Facebook, but I hardly know him.
- A person who backs or supports something. · I’m not a friend of cheap wine.
- An object or idea that can be used for good. · Fruit is your friend.
- Used as a form of address when warning someone. · You’d better watch it, friend.
- A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
- A spring-loaded camming device.
Plural friends
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“How is that, my friend?”
“The truth is,” replied Dantès, “that I am too happy for noisy mirth; if that is what you meant by your observation, my worthy friend, you are right; joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.”
The Scarecrow went sorrowfully back to his friends and told them what Oz had said; and Dorothy was surprised to find that the Great Wizard was not a Head, as she had seen him, but a lovely Lady.
Reynolds replied, that he was; adding, “But we expect him to-morrow, with a large party of friends.” How rejoiced was Elizabeth that their own journey had not by any circumstance been delayed a day!
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