0 a person who you know well and who you like a lot, but who is usually not a member of your family:
She's my best/oldest/closest friend - we've known each other since we were five.
This restaurant was recommended to me by a friend of mine.
We've been friends for years.
José and Pilar are (good) friends of ours.
We're (good) friends with José and Pilar.
She said that she and Peter were just (good) friends (= they were not having a sexual relationship).
I've made a lot of friends in this job.
You don't have to pretend any more - you're among friends now.
1 someone who gives money to an arts organization or charity in order to support it:
The Friends of the Royal Academy raised £10,000 towards the cost of the exhibition.
2 to invite someone to be your friend on a social networking website:
3 a Quaker
4 a person you know well and like a lot, but who is usually not a member of your family:
Is he a friend of yours ?
Come and meet my friend Laura.
He's not my boyfriend - we're just good friends!
She had returned to her active schedule with friends, and volunteering.
Their roles in friendships changed too in that they needed to determine how their friends were responding to their illness and adapt to that.
Enthusiasm, however, can be 'overdone', as one respondent told me who, with his friends, used to laugh at the teacher who was 'trying too hard'!
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