friendship

[ frend-ship ]

/ ˈfrɛnd ʃɪp /

the state of being a friend; association as friends: to value a person's friendship.

a friendly relation or intimacy.

friendly feeling or disposition.

Origin of friendship

before 900; Middle English; Old English frēondscipe. See friend, -ship

2 harmony, accord, understanding, rapport.

pre·friend·ship, noun

Their friendship began when Krauss, who was chairman of the physics department at Case Western in Cleveland, sought out Epstein.

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There are moments of humor even, and friendship and love, and there are moments of religion, or lack of religion.

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With Mac and Jesse we wanted to establish a friendship that was mostly a product of their common situation and enclosed world.

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Friendship is the trump card in the movement for equality, not etiology.

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Love poems between aristocratic women were not uncommon at the time, as long as they stayed safely on the side of friendship.

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It was during this period of her life that she won a friendship quite as strong and quite as precious as that of old Grossetete.

The Village Rector |Honore de Balzac
It would be all the easier to pave the way towards a friendship between Philip and him, by-and-by.

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 695 |Various
It was a friendship that would have meant much to Douglas, even if it had not led to an interesting romance.

Stephen A. Douglas |Allen Johnson
The second shows what the friendship of the teacher and the children could do for it.

Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets |Various
This acquaintance ripened into a friendship of the purest stamp.

Christopher Carson |John S. C. Abbott