friendhood

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

名詞

不可算名詞 通常

The state, quality, or condition of being a friend or friends. / A society or band of friends.

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Their long friendhood, built on trust and laughter, helped them weather every storm.

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意味（1）

The state, quality, or condition of being a friend or friends.

This is fully and quickly intelligible, but what it says is that the process of turning out to be a friend began, not with a set of properties that inconclusively indicated friendhood, but with a set that in fact inconclusively indicated unfriendliness.

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意味（2）

A society or band of friends.

This reform was a most drastic one, carried out with genial simplicity: his Friendhoods of warriors were commanded to go everywhere and to see that the population of the land should be assembled in each district, driven into the rivers, …

詳細

friendhoods （ plural ）