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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A boyfriend or girlfriend.
  • An associate who provides assistance.
  • A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
  • A person who backs something.
  • A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted
  • A Society of Friends.
  • ironic|used only in the vocative Used as a form of address when warning someone.
  • programming In object-oriented programming, a function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
  • informal An object or idea that can be used for good.
  • ''(rock-climbing)'' Brand name of a spring-loaded camming device now manufactured by Wild Country. Now used (often without initial capital) to refer to any such device.

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Verb:

  • obsolete To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
  • To add a person to a list of friends on one's social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.

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