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- noun Plural form of
friend . - noun Participants in a two-way friendship relationship.
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Examples
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One person\'s happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only his friends, but his friends\ 'friends, and his friends\' friends\ 'friends.
Happiness is a collective - not just individual - phenomenon 2008
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I often think if mothers could be friends to their children, _real friends_, I mean, and not claim what no human being has
The Shield of Silence George [Illustrator] Loughridge
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Kind friends, he said, friends I have known so long, 1790
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Adamss interest in making friends was something desperate, but the London season, Milnes used to say, is a season for making acquaintances and losing friends; there was no intimate life.
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Antony and Lepidus, Cæsars most faithful friends, got off privately, and hid themselves in some friends houses.
Cæsar Plutarch 1909
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Not for because they set less store by their own citizens, than by their friends; but that they take the loss of their friends money more heavily than the loss of their own.
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Above all, make friends; that's it, _make friends_ -- everybody, everywhere.
The Gray Dawn Stewart Edward White 1909
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"_A good plot, good friends, and full of expectation: an excellent plot, very good friends_."
The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901
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This son of Sirach even says -- I saw it but just now: 'Take heed of thy friends;' not, observe, thy seeming friends, thy hypocritical friends, thy false friends, but thy _friends_, thy real friends -- that is to say, not the truest friend in the world is to be implicitly trusted.
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
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Falconer's friends, of which, at this time, he could not fail to have many, poured in with congratulations on the rapid advancement of his sons, and on all sides exclamations were heard in favour of _friends in power_.
Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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