Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“Friends” is a form of

friend

/fɹɛnd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms friends friending friended frind freind

  1. noun A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. “John and I have been friends ever since we were roommates at college.”
  2. noun An associate who provides assistance; patron, mentor. “The Automobile Association is every motorist's friend. The police is every law-abiding citizen's friend.”
  3. noun A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted. “a friend of a friend”
  4. noun A person who backs or supports something. “I’m not a friend of cheap wine.”
  5. noun (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good. “Fruit is your friend.”
  6. noun (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone. “You’d better watch it, friend.”
  7. noun (object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
  8. noun (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
  9. verb (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
  10. verb (transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
  11. noun A Quaker; a member of the Society of Friends. (See also Friends.)
  12. noun (rock-climbing) Brand name of a spring-loaded camming device, now used to refer to any such device, often uncapitalized, as friend.
  13. proper noun A surname transferred from the common noun.
  14. proper noun An unincorporated community in Terry Township, Finney County, Kansas.
  15. proper noun A minor city in Saline County, Nebraska, named after Charles E. Friend.
  16. proper noun A ghost town in Wasco County, Oregon, named after George J. Friend.

Synonyms

acquaintance contact admirer booster champion protagonist supporter buster mate pal buddy sonny lover company et al. ally babber billy bredrin bruv Quaker

Antonyms

enemy stranger foe asshole bitchy-pants creep false friend fiend horse's ass jerk nemesis pill

Etymology

From Middle English freend, frend, frende, freynde, friend, frind, frond, frund, vrend, vryend, from Old English frēond, frīond (“friend”, literally “loving [one], lover”), from Proto-West Germanic *friund, from Proto-Germanic *frijōndz (“friend, loved one”), from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to please; to love”), roughly equivalent to free + -nd. See also Friday.
Cognate with Scots freend (“friend”), Yola friend, vriene (“friend”), North Frisian frinj, frün (“friend”), Saterland Frisian Fjund, Früünd (“friend”), West Frisian freon, freondinne (“friend”), Cimbrian bròint, vròint (“friend”), Dutch vriend (“friend”), German Freund (“friend”), German Low German Fründ (“friend, relative”), Limburgish vröndj (“friend”), Luxembourgish Frënd (“friend”), Vilamovian fraeind, frajnd (“friend”), Yiddish פֿרײַנד (fraynd, “friend”), Danish frænde (“kinsman”), Faroese and Icelandic frændi (“kinsman”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk frende (“relative”), Swedish frände (“kinsman, relative”), Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌹𐌾𐍉𐌽𐌳𐍃 (frijōnds, “friend”); also Welsh rhydd (“free”), Latin proprius (“own, proper”), Belarusian пры́яцель (prýjacjelʹ, “friend”), Bulgarian прия́тел (prijátel, “male friend”), Czech přítel (“friend; supporter; lover”), Macedonian при́јател (príjatel, “friend, mate, pal”), Polish przyjaciel, przyjáciel (“friend; lover”), Russian прия́тель (prijátelʹ, “friend; buddy, mate, pal”), Serbo-Croatian при̏јатељ, prȉjatelj (“friend”), Slovak priateľ (“friend; supporter”), Slovene prijatelj (“friend; companion; chum”), Ukrainian при́ятель (prýjatelʹ, “friend; buddy, pal”), Avestan 𐬟𐬭𐬌𐬌𐬀 (friia, “good, pleasant”), Persian فری (fari, “beloved, dear; pleasing”), Sanskrit प्रिय (priya, “beloved; own, wonted”). More at free.

English surname, from the noun friend, or adaptations of it in other languages such as German Freund, Dutch Vriend, Slovene Prijatelj.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun One who entertains for another suo Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. Dryden.
  2. noun One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address.
  3. verb To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.

Etymology [OR. frend, freond, AS. freónd, prop. p. pr. of freón, freógan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frændi kinsman, Sw. frände. Goth. frij friend, frij to love. sq. root83. See Free, and cf. Fiend.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “friend”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

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