mutual friend

English

Noun

mutual friend (plural mutual friends)

1. Someone who is a friend of two or more people, each of whom may not know each other.

   We first met through a mutual friend.

Translations

friend of each of two or more people

• Finnish: yhteinen ystävä, yhteinen kaveri
• French: ami commun m, amie commune f
• German: gemeinsamer Freund m
• Italian: amico comune m, amica comuna f
• Polish: wspólny przyjaciel m

Further reading

• “mutual friend”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.