friended

[ fren-did ]
/ ˈfrɛn dɪd /

adjective Archaic.

provided with or accompanied by friends.

Origin of friended

First recorded in 1350–1400, friended is from the Middle English word frended. See friend, -ed2

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

ANTONYMS FOR friend

1, 4 enemy, foe.

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.

OTHER WORDS FROM friend

friend·less, adjective friend·less·ness, noun non·friend, noun

Example 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.

    Accidental Billionaires |Samuel P. Jacobs |July 16, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
  • "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)

friend
/ (frɛnd) /

noun

verb

(tr) an archaic word for befriend

Derived forms of friend

friendless, adjective friendlessness, noun friendship, noun

Word 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