Thesaurus:friend
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: person whose company one enjoys edit
Synonyms edit
- babber (UK)
- billy (UK)
- bredrin (Rastafarian)
- bruv (UK)
- bud (US, Canada)
- buddo (US, Canada)
- buddy (US, Canada)
- butty (UK)
- chaver (Jewish)
- china (UK)
- chuck (UK)
- chum (UK)
- cock (UK, Australia)
- cocker (UK)
- cobber (Australia)
- compadre
- comrade
- companion
- cove (Australia)
- crony
- dawg
- dude
- duck (UK)
- fam
- fettler (UK)
- friend
- geez (UK)
- geezer (UK)
- gink
- good old boy
- homeskillet
- homie (US)
- kith (obsolete)
- lover [⇒ thesaurus] (UK)
- marrow (UK)
- mate (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
- matey (UK)
- mucker (UK)
- old bean (UK)
- pal
- pardner (US)
- peeps (plural only)
- shag (UK)
- sport
- surry (UK)
- tovarish
- wantok (Melanesia, Papua New Guinea)
Antonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
Hypernyms edit
Holonyms edit
Various edit
- ally
- bedfellow
- bedmate
- childhood friend
- classmate
- compatriot
- co-worker
- fair-weather friend
- family friend
- fellow traveller
- flatmate
- frenemy
- friend of a friend (FOAF)
- goombah
- hail fellow well met
- housemate
- mouth-friend
- neighbor (US)
- neighbour (UK)
- old friend
- partner in crime
- playfellow
- playmate
- schoolmate
- roommate
- roomie
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “890. friend” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “friend” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.