friend meaning
EN
[fɹɛnd] [-ɛnd] 
US UK EN Friend 
- NounPLfriendsSUF-and
- A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
- However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
- A boyfriend or girlfriend.
- An associate who provides assistance.
- 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.
- 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.
- A person who backs or supports something.
- I’m not a friend of cheap wine.
- (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.
- Wiktionary is your friend.
- (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.
- You’d better watch it, friend.
- (computing, programming) In object-oriented programming, a function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
- (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
- (obsolete) A paramour of either sex.
- A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
- VerbSGfriendsPRfriendingPT, PPfriended
- (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
- (transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
- (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Ian, of course, big guy, wins the game and big-heartedly donates all his winnings to their Friends of the Earth plastic globe, sits back against Karen's legs and she strokes his head and shoulders.
- We used to be good friends but we dripted apart over the years.
- Ryan and his friends got too rowdy at the bar, so they were eighty-sixed.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Friends and relatives were coming out of the woodwork to celebrate his good fortune.
- Friends was one of the most successful television series in recent years.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- He's always been willing to go to the wall for his friends.
- I was still reeling from the zinger of seeing my ex on a date with my best friend.
- And it is ruining my social life. face keeps breaking out with pimples and I know I look repulsive, so how can I ever expect to have boy friends?
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of friend in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Morphemes
- Suffixes
- Words by suffix
- Words suffixed with -and
- Words suffixed with -and
- Words by suffix
- Suffixes
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Morphemes
- en friends
- en friendly
- en friendliness
- en friendlily
- en friendy
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "friend" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.