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friend·ship (frend′s̸hip′)

noun

  1. the state of being friends
  2. attachment between friends
  3. friendly feeling or attitude; friendliness

Etymology: ME frendship < OE freondscipe

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friendship Synonyms

friendship

n.

  1. The state of being friends

    association, companionship, alliance, confraternity, amity, concord, harmony, camaraderie, fellowship, comradeship, fraternization, attachment, bond, closeness, brotherhood, sisterhood, fraternity, comity, mutual regard, affinity, accord, league, pact, rapprochement (French), sympathy, rapport, understanding, agreement, compatibility, fellow feeling, intercourse, intimacy, familiarity, bonding.

    Antonyms hatred*, hostility*, enmity. *

  2. Friendly feeling

    friendliness, good will, favor, devotion, regard, brotherly love, affection, fondness, consideration, esteem, good intentions, kindness, kindliness, amiability, amicability, neighborliness, sociability, loving-kindness, respect, attention, attentiveness, appreciation, tenderness, geniality, congeniality, heartiness, conviviality, affability, companionability, cordiality, good faith, confidence, attachment, loyalty, steadfastness, staunchness, responsiveness, understanding, warmth, sympathy, good humor, good nature, graciousness, benevolence, sincerity, generosity, chumminess*, clubbability*.

    Antonyms hatred*, animosity*, disfavor.


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friendship Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • forge: Through the group's active social scene, you'd forge strong friendships which could last a lifetime.

Preposition: with

  • boy: Strayed A widowed schoolteacher who flees Nazi-occupied Paris with her children develops a friendship with a teenage boy who comes to their rescue.

Adjective modifier

  • lasting: I have met some wonderful people during my holidays over the years, some of them having turned into lasting friendships.

Modifies a noun

  • bracelet: DEVELOPMENT IDEAS: Research the tradition of making and giving friendship bracelets and made your own.

Noun used with modifier

  • childhood: Storm by Suzanne Fisher Staples How could the loyalty of a childhood friendship withstand the onslaught of adult hypocrisy and racism?
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friendship quotes

One friend in a lifetime ismuch; two are many; three are hardly possible.Friendship needs a certainparallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

-Adams, Henry Brooks

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their familyöbut to a solitaryand an exile his friends are everything.

-Cather,Willa Sibert

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