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Friend

noun

A person you know well and regard with affection and trust.

An associate who provides cooperation or assistance. Synonym: ally.

A person with whom you are acquainted. Synonym: acquaintance. "We are friends of the family"

A person who backs a politician or a team etc.. Synonyms: admirer, booster, champion, protagonist, supporter. "They are friends of the library"

A member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers). Synonym: Quaker.

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... friend, But even so a warrior's life should end,— A Thunder-Bird was stricken; his bright beak, Cleaving the tumult like a lightning streak, Smote with a fiery hiss the watery plain; His upturned breast, where gleamed one fleck of red, His sable ...

— Indian Legends of Minnesota • Various

... Mary into tears: and the necessity of her situation extorted from her a declaration, that she would willingly justify herself to her sister from all imputations, and would submit her cause to the arbitration of so good a friend.[*] Two days after, she sent Lord Herreis to London with a letter to the ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. - From Elizabeth to James I. • David Hume

... Thomas Jefferson, reviewing in later years the course of events, declared that had there been no queen there would have been no revolution. Governor Morris, whose anti-revolutionary and conservative leanings made him the friend and confidant of the royal family, writes to Washington on January 1790: "If only the reigning prince were not the small-beer character he is, and even only tolerably watchful of events, he would regain ...

— The Story of Paris • Thomas Okey

... letter, which she wrote at this time to a friend, in reply to a letter of sympathy in reference to the outrage which had torn her from Versailles, will enable one to form a judgment of her situation and state of mind at that time. "I shed tears of affection on reading your sympathizing letter. You talk of my courage; it required ...

— Maria Antoinette - Makers of History • John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

... Henry W. Shoemaker an old and valued friend, who was promised this dedication, with an entirely different novel ...

— Murder in the Gunroom • Henry Beam Piper

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