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FRIENDSHIP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being friends (or friendly)

Synonyms:

friendly relationship; friendship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("friendship" is a kind of...):

relationship (a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "friendship"):

blood brotherhood (the friendship characteristic of blood brothers)

companionship; company; fellowship; society (the state of being with someone)

confidence; trust (a trustful relationship)

Derivation:

friend (a person with whom you are acquainted)

friend (a person you know well and regard with affection and trust)

Credits

 Context examples: 

I mean from henceforth to lead a life of extreme seclusion; you must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship, if my door is often shut even to you.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I never formed a close friendship with a man—I say nothing of women—save only the once.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And yet I do not wish to see so valiant a man mishandled, and so I will, for friendship's sake, ride after this Englishman and bring him back to you.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dear me! that is friendship indeed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I feel you will find some of your greatest personal growth through the new contacts, acquaintances, and friendships you form now.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It was a prosaic way of forming a friendship, but it was effective.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While I advanced in friendship and intimacy with Mr. Dick, I did not go backward in the favour of his staunch friend, my aunt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The unkindness of your own relations has made you astonished to find friendship any where.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A sacred thing was this book her lodger had made, a fetich of friendship.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me and friendship to each other.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)