คำว่า ' friend ' ( N )
มีความหมายในภาษาไทยว่า มิตร
คำศัพท์อื่นๆที่มีความหมายเหมือนกัน : เพื่อน, สหาย, เกลอ, มิตรสหาย, พวกพ้อง
คำที่คล้ายกัน : companion; comrade
คำตรงกันข้าม : anemy; foe
คำนิยามในภาษาอังกฤษ (definition) :
[n.] One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.
[n.] One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address.
[n.] One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.
[n.] One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers.
[n.] A paramour of either sex.
[v. t.] To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.