English Dictionary

friend

IPA（発音記号）

/fɹɛnd/

名詞

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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.

日本語の意味

家族以外で親しい関係にある人、つまり心を許せる仲間。 / 友情を通じて支え合う仲間や助け合う人物。

My friend baked a cake to cheer me up after the difficult exam.

試験が大変だった後、私の友人が私を元気づけるためにケーキを焼いてくれました。

意味（1）

A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

意味（2）

An associate who provides assistance.

The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend. The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.

意味（3）

A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.

The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you stay up to date with what your friends are doing,[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.

意味（4）

A person who backs or supports something.

I’m not a friend of cheap wine.

意味（5）

(informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.

Fruit is your friend.

意味（6）

(colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.

You’d better watch it, friend.

意味（7）

(object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.

But don't take the following sections as an endorsement of friends. Top C++ programmers avoid using friends unless absolutely necessary.

意味（8）

(climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.

Since they were introduced in the 1970s, friends have revolutionized climbing, making protection possible in previously impossible places […]

意味（9）

(euphemistic) A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.

Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue ; Nor never come in visard to my friend

意味（10）

(Scotland, obsolete) A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.

Friends agree best at a distance.

意味（11）

(in the plural, usually preceded by "and") Used to refer collectively to a group of associated individuals, especially those comprising a cast, company, or crew

Meanwhile on The View, Whoopi Goldberg and friends continue to issue forced apologies for their assumptive comments regarding non-profit organisation Turning Point USA...

friends （ plural ）