friended
[ fren-did ]
/ ˈfrɛn dɪd /
adjective Archaic.
provided with or accompanied by friends.
Words nearby friended
Definition for friended (2 of 2)
friend
[ frend ]
/ frɛnd /
noun
verb (used with object)
Rare.
to befriend.
to add (a person) to one's list of contacts on a social media website: I just friended a couple of guys in my class.
Origin of friend
First recorded before 900; Middle English
friend, frend, Old English
frēond “friend, lover, relative” (cognate with Old Saxon
friund, Old High German
friunt (German
Freund), Gothic
frijōnds), originally the present participle of
frēogan, cognate with Gothic
frijōn “to love”
SYNONYMS FOR friend
synonym study for friend
1. See
acquaintance.
historical usage of friend
Friend and
fiend have identical formations: They are both in origin present participles used as nouns, Old English
frēond (also
frīend ) for
friend, and
fēond (also
fīend ) for
fiend. The two nouns even occur together in Old English alliterative verse:
Se fēond and se frēond “the fiend and the friend.”
Frēond “friend, close acquaintance” has many cognates in Germanic: Old Frisian friūnd, Old Dutch friunt, Old High German friunt, German Freund, Gothic frijonds. Frēond comes from the Old English verb frēogan (also frēon ) “to love, free, set free,” and is a derivative of the Germanic root fri-, frī- (and suffixed form frija- ), which is also the source of English free (the progression of senses is “beloved,” then “one of the loved ones,” then “one not a slave, free”).
Old English fēond originally meant “enemy, foe” (and so was the opposite of friend ), and especially in Old English poetry, “Satan, the Devil” (in Beowulf the devil is referred to as fēond moncynnes “the enemy of mankind”). Fēond has many cognates in Germanic: Old Frisian fiand, Dutch vijand, German Feind, all meaning “enemy.” Fēond comes from the Old English verb fēogan “to hate,” from a Germanic root fī - (from a very complicated Proto-Indo-European root pē-, pēi-, pī- “to hurt, harm”).
Etymologically speaking, then, friend and fiend are acquaintances, and not relatives.
Frēond “friend, close acquaintance” has many cognates in Germanic: Old Frisian friūnd, Old Dutch friunt, Old High German friunt, German Freund, Gothic frijonds. Frēond comes from the Old English verb frēogan (also frēon ) “to love, free, set free,” and is a derivative of the Germanic root fri-, frī- (and suffixed form frija- ), which is also the source of English free (the progression of senses is “beloved,” then “one of the loved ones,” then “one not a slave, free”).
Old English fēond originally meant “enemy, foe” (and so was the opposite of friend ), and especially in Old English poetry, “Satan, the Devil” (in Beowulf the devil is referred to as fēond moncynnes “the enemy of mankind”). Fēond has many cognates in Germanic: Old Frisian fiand, Dutch vijand, German Feind, all meaning “enemy.” Fēond comes from the Old English verb fēogan “to hate,” from a Germanic root fī - (from a very complicated Proto-Indo-European root pē-, pēi-, pī- “to hurt, harm”).
Etymologically speaking, then, friend and fiend are acquaintances, and not relatives.
OTHER WORDS FROM friend
friend·less, adjective friend·less·ness, noun non·friend, nounExample sentences from the Web for friended
For that, Saverin seemed like a good guy, so I did what you did then in college: I friended him on Facebook.
"I have been well 'friended' all my life," he said once, looking round at the faces by his bedside.
We Two |Edna Lyall
British Dictionary definitions for friended (1 of 3)
Friend
1
/ (frɛnd) /
noun
a member of the Religious Society of Friends; Quaker
British Dictionary definitions for friended (2 of 3)
Friend
2
/ (frɛnd) /
noun
trademark mountaineering
a device consisting of a shaft with double-headed spring-loaded cams that can be wedged in a crack to provide an anchor point
British Dictionary definitions for friended (3 of 3)
Derived forms of friend
friendless, adjective friendlessness, noun friendship, nounWord Origin for friend
Old English
frēond; related to Old Saxon
friund, Old Norse
frǣndi, Gothic
frijōnds, Old High German
friunt
Idioms and Phrases with friended
friend