A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. / An associate who provides assistance.

(transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.

An acquaintance known vaguely through a mutual friend; someone that one does not know well.

(computing) Describing a restricted type of peer-to-peer network in which only persons who know each other participate.

plural of friend of a friend

A Quaker; a member of the Society of Friends. (See also Friends.) / (rock-climbing) Brand name of a spring-loaded camming device, now used to refer to any such device, often uncapitalized, as friend.

A surname transferred from the common noun.

The title of an American television situation comedy; Friends. / The Quakers; the Society of Friends.

plural of Friend

plural of friend