English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of friend

friend

/noun/ दोस्त; मित्र; साथी; यार; सखा; मीत; हितैषी; साखी; अंतरंग; सहायक; जीवन-साथी;

Synonym buddy; ally; partner; paramour; witness; heart; assistant;

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English Dictionary:

1. Friend

[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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A paramour of either sex.

2. Friend

[v. t.]

- To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.