close friend

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• close friend — good intimate friend …   English contemporary dictionary

• friend — [ frend ] noun *** 1. ) count someone you know well and like that is not a member of your family: She s visiting friends in Illinois. close/good/great friend: Helga is a close friend of mine. friends and relatives/neighbors/acquaintances: We… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• friend — W1S1 [frend] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(person you like)¦ 2 be friends (with somebody) 3 4 be just (good) friends 5¦(supporter)¦ 6¦(not an enemy)¦ 7¦(parliament/court of law)¦ 8 be no friend of something 9 Friend …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• close — close1 [klōs] adj. closer, closest [ME clos < OFr < L clausus, pp. of claudere (see CLOSE2); senses under II from notion “with spaces or intervals closed up”] I denoting the fact or state of being closed or confined 1. shut; not open 2.… …   English World dictionary

• friend */*/*/ — UK [frend] / US noun Word forms friend : singular friend plural friends 1) [countable] someone you know well and like, but who is not a member of your family She s visiting friends in Scotland. close/good/great friend: Helga is a close friend of… …   English dictionary

• close - near — If something is near, near to, or close to a place or thing, it is a short distance from it. When close has this meaning, it is pronounced . I live now in Reinfeld, which is near Lübeck. I stood very …   Useful english dictionary

• close —    1. stingy    A shortened form of close fisted, whence also near1.    2. having an extramarital sexual relationship with    From the requisite proximity:     Mr and Mrs a widow... have been close for two years. (Daily Telegraph, 28 March 1994… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• friend — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Person on intimate terms with another Nouns 1. friend, acquaintance, neighbor, well wisher; alter ego; bosom or fast friend, gentleman or lady friend; partner; fidus Achates; persona grata; associate,… …   English dictionary for students

• friend*/*/*/ — [frend] noun [C] someone who you know well and like who is not a member of your family She s visiting friends in Scotland.[/ex] Helga is a close friend of mine.[/ex] I m having lunch with an old friend (= someone who has been a friend for a long… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• friend —    an extramarital sexual partner    Heterosexual or homosexual:     You got a friend that don t work and a husband that works, you re all set. (Chandler, 1943)     I have a very nice friend. It s against the law of course. (G. Greene, 1932 but… …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

• friend — /frend/ noun (C) 1 PERSON YOU LIKE someone who you like very much and like to spend time with: Jerry, I d like to introduce you to my friend Lucinda. | be friends with sb: My parents have been friends with the Murkets for twenty years. | friend… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English