friend
/frɛnd/
noun
- A person you know well and like, who is not part of your family.
- A true friend is someone who supports you during hard times.
- She made a new friend at the summer camp.
- My best friend and I have known each other since kindergarten.
- A person who supports a particular cause, group, or organization.
- He is a friend of the local library and volunteers there often.
- The museum has many friends who donate money every year.
- Friends of the park helped clean up after the storm.
- A contact on a social networking website.
- He unfriended someone who posted too many ads.
- She has over 500 friends on her social media profile.
- I accepted a friend request from a classmate I hadn't seen in years.
verb
- To add someone as a contact on a social networking website.
- She friended me after we met at the conference.
- I decided to friend my coworker on the new social platform.
- It's polite to friend someone only if you actually know them.