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FRIEND
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English
English : nickname for a companionable person, from Middle English frend ‘friend’ (Old English frēond). In the Middle Ages the term was also used to denote a relative or kinsman, and the surname may also have been acquired by someone who belonged to the family of someone who was a more important figure in the community.American translation of Jewish and German Freund.
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English
English : from an Old English personal name composed of the elements hadu ‘strife’ + win(e) ‘friend’.
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English
English : nickname from Old English mecca ‘companion’, ‘friend’.
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English : from Old Norse hǫldr, within the Danelaw (the region of pre-conquest England where Danish rule and custom was dominant) a rank of feudal nobility immediately below that of earl.German : nickname from Middle High German holde ‘friend’ or ‘servant’, ‘vassal’.German (Höld) : variant of Held ‘hero’ (see Held 1), found chiefly in Bavaria.
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Merewine (Old English Maerwin, from mær ‘fame’ + win ‘friend’).English : from the Old English personal name Merefinn, derived from Old Norse Mora-Finnr.English : from the Old English personal name Mǣrwynn, composed of the elements mǣr ‘famous’, ‘renowned’ + wynn ‘joy’.English : from the Welsh personal name Merfyn, Mervyn, composed of the Old Welsh elements mer, which probably means ‘marrow’, + myn ‘eminent’.English : Mathew Marvin was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.
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North German
North German : variant of the habitational name Lewing, from a place near Stade in Lower Saxony.North German : patronymic from a personal name (Lehwing or Lewien), formed with Middle Low German lev ‘dear’ + win ‘friend’.English : perhaps a habitational name from Levens in Cumbria, probably so named from the Old English personal name LÄ“ofa (+ genitive n) + næss ‘promontory’, ‘headland’.Possibly a hypercorrected spelling of Irish Levens, a County Louth name, which Woulfe interprets as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac DhuinnshlébhÃn, a variant of Dunleavy.
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Polish, German, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic)
Polish, German, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from Polish litwin, an ethnic name for someone from Lithuania (Polish Litwa, Lithuanian Lietuva, a word of uncertain etymology, perhaps a derivative of the river name Leità ). In the 14th century Lithuania was an independent grand duchy which extended from the Baltic to the shores of the Black Sea. It was united with Poland in 1569, and was absorbed into the Russian empire in 1795. The region referred to as Lite in Ashkenazic culture encompassed not only Lithuania but also Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, parts of northern Ukraine, and parts of northeastern Poland.English : from an Old English personal name, Lēohtwine, composed of the elements lēoht ‘light’, ‘bright’ + wine ‘friend’.
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English
English : variant of Friend.
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English and French
English and French : from a Norman personal name, Herluin or Arluin, composed of the Germanic elements erl ‘nobleman’, ‘warrior’ + wini ‘friend’.German (Härlin) : variant of Harle 1.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of habergeons, Middle English, Old French haubergeon. The habergeon was a sleeveless jacket of mail or scale armor, which was also worn for penance.Born in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, James Habersham emigrated to the infant colony of Georgia in 1738 with his friend George Whitefield. Together they established what is believed to be America’s first orphanage. Habersham was married in Bethesda, GA, in 1740 and had three surviving sons, all of whom were educated at Princeton and became ardent patriots.
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English (East Anglia)
English (East Anglia) : from the Old French personal name Harduin, composed of the Germanic elements hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’ + win ‘friend’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Lamey 1.Possibly French (L’Amie), from l’amie ‘the (female) friend’.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant spelling of Levin.English, North German, and Dutch : from the Germanic personal name represented by Old English Lēofwine, Saxon Liafwin, composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + wine ‘friend’.English and Scottish : habitational name from places called Leven in East Yorkshire, Fife, and Renfrew. The first is probably from a stream name, possibly derived from a Celtic word meaning smooth (as in Welsh llyfyn). The Scottish place name is from a Gaelic river name meaning ‘elm river’.Dutch and North German : from a Flemish saint’s name, Lefwin (Lieven), the patron saint of Ghent (see Lewin 2).
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Northern Irish, Scottish, and English
Northern Irish, Scottish, and English : variant of Irvin.English : from the Middle English personal name Irwyn, Erwyn, or Everwyn, Old English Eoforwine, composed of the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wine ‘friend’.From the Welsh personal name Urien (see Uren).
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Godewyn, Old English GÅdwine, composed of the elements gÅd ‘good’ + wine ‘friend’.This name was brought independently to New England by many bearers from the 17th century onward. William Goodwin was one of the founders of Hartford, CT, (coming from Cambridge, MA, with Thomas Hooker) in 1635.
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English
English : from a Middle English personal name Holbert, which according to Reaney is probably a survival of an unrecorded Old English name Holdbeorht, composed of the Germanic elements hold ‘friendly’, ‘gracious’, or ‘loyal’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.
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English
English : from an Old Norse personal name, Lambi.French and English : nickname from Old French amis, ami ‘friend’ or amé(e) ‘beloved’, with the definite article l’.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : German and Polish spelling of Levin.English, Dutch, and North German : from the Old English personal name Lēofwine, composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + wine ‘friend’. This was the name borne by an English missionary who became the patron saint of Ghent, and the personal name was consequently popular in the Low Countries during the Middle Ages.Irish and Manx : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Guillin ‘son of the servant of William’.
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English and German
English and German : from a Germanic personal name, Holbert, Hulbert, composed of the elements hold, huld ‘friendly’, ‘gracious’ + berht ‘bright’, ‘famous’.German (Hülbert) : topographic name for someone living by a pool or small pond, from Old High German huliwa ‘pool’.
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a.
Highly regarded; esteemed; prized; as, a valued contributor; a valued friend.
v. t.
To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.
a.
Having friends;
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Not hostile; as, a friendly power or state.
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.
Friendliness.
v. t.
To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Friend
n.
The condition or quality of being friendly.
a.
Destitute of friends; forsaken.
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Promoting the good of any person; favorable; propitious; serviceable; as, a friendly breeze or gale.
adv.
In the manner of friends; amicably; like friends.
v. t.
The act of visiting, or going to see a person or thing; a brief stay of business, friendship, ceremony, curiosity, or the like, usually longer than a call; as, a visit of civility or respect; a visit to Saratoga; the visit of a physician.
a.
Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable.
adv.
In a friendly manner.
a.
Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable.
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.
imp. & p. p.
of Friend
n.
The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will.