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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
friend
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a childhood friend
▪ He married his childhood friend.
a circle of friends
▪ Over the years she had established a circle of good friends.
a school friend
▪ She met some old school friends.
among friends
▪ Jim relaxed, knowing he was among friends.
dear friend
▪ Mark became a dear friend.
fair-weather friend
faithful friend
▪ a faithful friend
false friend
firm friends (=close friends)
▪ Diana and Laura have been firm friends since their early teens.
friend of hers
▪ Paul’s a friend of hers.
friend of mine
▪ I want you to meet an old friend of mine.
friend of theirs
▪ They shared the prize money with a friend of theirs.
friend of yours
▪ Is Maria a friend of yours?
friends and relations
▪ We miss our friends and relations in the UK.
friends and relatives
▪ About thirty-five close friends and relatives attended the wedding.
friends of his
▪ Garry introduced us to some friends of his.
friends of ours
▪ The Thackers are friends of ours.
Friends Provident Trophy, the
have a circle of friends/acquaintances etc
▪ She was beautiful and had a wide circle of admirers.
lifelong friend
▪ She became a lifelong friend of ours.
long-lost brother/cousin/friend etc
long-time friend/lover etc
pen friend
sb’s few belongings/friends etc
▪ I gathered together my few possessions.
school friend
the best of friends (=very close friends)
▪ They became the best of friends.
the days/dreams/friends etc of sb’s youth
▪ He had long ago forgotten the dreams of his youth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
▪ He named a man who, as I have said, was a very close friend of mine.
▪ One of those Bill GatesAnn Winblad situations where you part the closest of friends and then what?
▪ For seventy years Max Jacob has been regarded as Modigliani's closest friend.
▪ Bulger has maintained that the trips were nothing more than personal vacations with a close friend.
▪ They tried to assassinate her; and killed off two of her closest political friends, Airey Neave and Ian Gow.
▪ The brilliant artist Peter Ellenshaw a close friend of Bill, was in a similar situation.
▪ Brother to the Good Sir James, the Bruce's closest friend.
▪ Sometimes he shared an outline or argument with his close friend Hal Owen, the country vet.
dear
▪ I know I should not allow one of my dearest friends to discover so late on of my romantic attachment ....
▪ My dear friend, I beg you to let us go ahead with our plan.
▪ He was a dear friend to many and will be greatly and sadly missed.
▪ But posting a bond would be risky even for a dear friend.
▪ She deserved no less, for she was the kindest, sweetest, dearest friend he had in the world.
▪ But the fact that you were a close and dear friend to my parents gives us a close bond, nevertheless.
▪ First of all, my dearest man friend died of cancer, aged forty-two.
good
▪ She was always a good friend to me.
▪ I sit on the curb outside my house, talking about books with my best friends, Freddie and Susan.
▪ All I want is some friends, but as soon as I get some real good friends they go off and leave me.
▪ Like third-grade best friends, these girls are not going to be separated.
▪ And he was a very good friend to Tom.
▪ Q: You and Faye Dunaway are good friends.
▪ As little as possible, but some of my best friends love it, so it depends on them.
▪ Both had grandsons who were best friends in the same grade in the same school.
mutual
▪ All of them were vaguely connected by work, or school, or mutual friends.
▪ Yes, he must have, though l had no word from mutual friends or my parents or sister.
▪ It was enough to have discovered one true mutual friend whose testimony could be relied upon.
▪ He did not say so, but I presumed that a mutual friend had told him about my separation and divorce.
▪ She was a staunch Methodist and a great admirer of our mutual friend Edna Jacques, of whom we often spoke.
new
▪ All kinds of people came to see plays and Will was making a lot of new friends.
▪ Then she races to recess with her new friend.
▪ Male speaker I've been juggling for about 5 months and it's a good place to meet new friends.
▪ So he devoted himself to his many New York friends and to the Manhattan social scene.
▪ They perhaps correspond in some ways to those of our new friend, Mr Bodenland.
▪ Try to get out and about whenever possible, making new friends and contacts.
▪ My New York friend had the right idea.
old
▪ So while helping my old friend, I would be losing him at the same time.
▪ I was dawdling over dessert, still killing time, when an old friend, Rose Dikas, slid into my booth.
▪ I share digs with an old school friend of mine, Daphne Harcourt-Browne.
▪ It was in the handwriting of my old friend Henry Jekyll.
▪ The old life, the old adventures, the old friends.
▪ He enjoyed being with his old friends in Jerusalem.
▪ Luigi, the fat, jovial owner, greeted Michele like an old friend.
▪ You've moved house and now live in an area away from your family and old friends.
personal
▪ Always helpful, he said he would have a word with Mallett, a personal friend, on my behalf.
▪ Mter all, the doctor is a personal friend.
▪ Come on all you personal friends of Batts out there; is this report true?
▪ They were close personal friends in addition to business partners.
▪ And if the new owners wish to allow in personal friends as members, why not.
▪ Or maybe the greedy merchant is a personal friend.
▪ Abbado is also a joy, and Barenboim I would now count as a personal friend.
▪ The coroner was John Lancelot Martin, a personal friend of the deceased, as were several members of the jury.
■ NOUN
school
▪ She was an old school friend, although we were out of school by then.
▪ There she was able to board with the family of an old school friend.
▪ He phoned an old school friend named Andy Rourke.
▪ One successful enterprise was started by two high school friends who loved to eat.
▪ He cadged fivers off various old school friends and workmates to tide him over until he could get to the bank.
▪ How would my secondary school friends have described me?
▪ On Friday evenings, he often attended a disco with school friends in a church hall near to it.
■ VERB
ask
▪ She had asked her friend to take her to see where Benny would be a student.
▪ By then, the prosecutor said, Lawhone was obsessed with the girl and began asking friends to help kidnap her.
▪ You could either ask a gardening friend if they could give you one or you could try and take one yourself.
▪ First, ask friends and family who they use.
▪ My daughter had asked a couple of friends from university to stay.
▪ For the event walkers are asked to solicit friends, family, associates and others as sponsors.
▪ I asked a young friend to read to me because I have difficulty in reading.
▪ If she had been a timid child, she would probably have asked her friend Balie Waggener.
become
▪ You need to know your enemy before you can make it your friend and yes, fear can become your friend.
▪ My six closest friends in the world all became close friends at Harvard Business School.
▪ Endill and the Bookman became great friends.
▪ It has become like an old friend, seen daily: not always dependable, but usually interesting, and sometimes right.
▪ It is also where she first met many of the people who have since become loyal and supportive friends.
▪ Which was around the time that Delia and Tammy became friends.
▪ Freemantle knew Leapor's writing long before they had actually become friends.
▪ Mike and I became friends at school, and I often had him to stay at my parents' house on weekends.
meet
▪ Perhaps you are going on an outing or meeting a friend.
▪ On the way over I met a friend, Dave, out jogging.
▪ He met his friends in the small wood outside the village.
▪ Although this particular occasion was rather marred by our mishap it was great to meet old friends again.
▪ Colleagues wept as they told how she planned to meet up with a friend for a two-week walking holiday.
▪ Through the Pattens, Joe met many new friends, some highly influential, others merely famous.
stay
▪ For eight days he lingered in Clifton, staying with friends, until the river cleared and the service resumed.
▪ The family were surprised to hear that he had written to his father asking if he could bring a friend to stay.
▪ Instead, the older girl said, Garcia spoke of staying with friends and relatives in Houston.
▪ I decided to go and stay with friends and tried to push it out of my head.
▪ I stay with my friend Allan, a flaky architect I had briefly been infatuated with in 1983.
▪ But she was staying with friends.
▪ Hammeed was staying with family friends.
tell
▪ You can tell all your friends!
▪ Think of it as a form of computer dating you can actually tell your friends about.
▪ I told my friend Bridget it was up to us to keep watch.
▪ Filled with shame, she rarely tells a friend how inept, depressed, or restless she feels.
▪ I smiled at both of them and told his friend my clothes suited him.
▪ First, I was told she was visiting friends.
▪ Only he and Mallachy knew about it, and sometimes he regretted that he'd told his friend.
▪ The second thing is to tell your friend to get lost.
visit
▪ Early one spring I drove down to South Carolina to visit some friends.
▪ The abbe had allowed me to visit friends.
▪ First, I was told she was visiting friends.
▪ One day they were invited to visit some old friends who had moved to Hereford.
▪ She also took the time to visit a Denison House friend of hers in Sheffield.
▪ She said she was on her way home after visiting friends when the incident happened.
▪ How often did Fred Taylor visit the homes of friends from the shop or otherwise see them outside work hours?
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
best friend
▪ Caroline and her best friend both had babies within three weeks of each other.
▪ Stuart is just my brother's best friend - I've known him since I was six.
▪ We lived next door to each other when we were kids, and we've been best friends ever since.
▪ After all - the man was one of his best friends, wasn't he?
▪ Although many people would disagree, radio is without doubt the musician's best friend.
▪ Didn't any of his best friends tell him?
▪ He was like a kid who had found a new best friend, and she was it.
▪ He was not allowed to mention the slaughtering to anyone, not even as a special secret between best friends.
▪ I also learned to become my own best friend.
▪ Trials so that her injured best friend Kay Poe could advance.
▪ When Julie had a home problem, her two best friends at work tried to offer advice based on their own experiences.
bosom friend/buddy/pal
▪ Benny and Garry were bosom pals once again.
▪ He was still my friend, my bosom friend.
▪ It is an open secret that he and Reg Pybus are bosom pals.
▪ It is now that man contemplates, for it is now that the sea is a bosom friend.
▪ Queequeg says they are now married-meaning they are bosom friends who would defend each other to the death.
▪ The first was affection of the kind that binds families together, or bosom pals.
▪ There was less arguing after that, but the two actors never became bosom buddies and never worked together again.
fast friends
▪ Ishmael and Queequeg become fast friends.
▪ Other volunteers want to become fast friends and cultural advisers.
▪ The two become fast friends and Herbert gently and tactfully instructs Pip in social behaviour appropriate for a gentleman.
▪ The two of them immediately became fast friends.
▪ They never, however, became hard and fast friends and there was an unspoken rivalry between them.
▪ Within a few years they had become fast friends.
feathered friend
▪ However, don't feed your feathered friends very dry bread, desiccated coconut or salty food.
▪ No gratitude came from feathered friends.
furry friends
lady friend
▪ Henry had just come in with his new lady friend.
▪ Bringing one of your lady friends?
▪ Frank had given Terence's gramophone to a lady friend, and would he please not tell Mum?
▪ Henry had just come in with his new lady friend, Lila Sams.
▪ Michael Lamonte, according to his lady friend, was filming at Pinewood.
▪ There was something about Tom's lady friend that seemed familiar and yet Joe couldn't quite place her.
▪ They had hired two massive and attractive, expensive houses, and were accompanied by two attractive and expensive lady friends.
▪ They tell their lady friends, and then all secrecy is lost.
▪ You had two tables, the second one to accommodate your lady friends.
man's best friend
mutual friend/interest
▪ His earliest rape, of a 19year-old girl, happened the previous year after they met via a mutual friend.
▪ It was enough to have discovered one true mutual friend whose testimony could be relied upon.
▪ She just wanted a mutual friend's number.
▪ The officials were eager to stress the mutual interests of our two countries and a future full of cooperation.
▪ The participating States also envisage holding future seminars on topics of mutual interest.
▪ Their mutual interest had transcended the age difference, and he had invited her back to his island home on Grand Cayman.
personal friend
▪ He was a personal friend of the Kennedys.
▪ I need to do as well for Roy Peck, my personal friend.
▪ Mter all, the doctor is a personal friend.
▪ Or you may be a personal friend of Lucian Freud - lucky old you.
▪ The most obvious of these clubs is composed of officials' personal friends.
▪ The range was inspired, in 1935, by the Pasha of Marrakech, a personal friend of Louis Cartier.
▪ Their leaders, who were once close personal friends, are no longer on speaking terms.
▪ They were close personal friends in addition to business partners.
some friend you are/some help she was etc
the Honourable Gentleman/the Honourable Lady/my Honourable Friend/the Honourable Member
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Friends, we are gathered here today to witness the marriage of John and Beth.
▪ Dad, this is my friend Steve.
▪ Don't worry, you're among friends here.
▪ I'm going out for a drink with a friend of mine tonight.
▪ I got a letter from a friend from college.
▪ Jerry, I'd like to introduce you to my friend Lucinda.
▪ John was a really good friend to me when I had all those problems last year.
▪ She's going to Palm Springs with some friends.
▪ Who goes there? Friend or foe?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And, you know, we all lost a good friend.
▪ He flew to Phoenix to be with our friends in their time of suffering.
▪ Her parents spent weeks sleeping on a hospital floor, while her sister, Caroline was being cared for by friends.
▪ The horse cropped at a leisurely pace through the flat Fenland countryside, Illingworth fretting while my friend gazed about calmly.
▪ The presence of a bodyguard was a constant reminder of the invisible veil which separated her from her family and friends.
▪ The three friends have printed 5, 000 copies of the book, but refuse to say how much they spent.
▪ The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he'd been drinking.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Friend

Friend \Friend\ (fr[e^]nd), n. [OR. frend, freond, AS. fre['o]nd, prop. p. pr. of fre['o]n, fre['o]gan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. fr[ae]ndi kinsman, Sw. fr["a]nde. Goth. frij[=o]nds friend, frij[=o]n to love.

  1. One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society and welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.

    Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
    --Dryden.

    A friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
    --Prov. xviii. 24.

  2. 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.

    Friend, how camest thou in hither?
    --Matt. xxii. 12.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

    America was first visited by Friends in 1656.
    --T. Chase.

  5. A paramour of either sex. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

    A friend at court or A friend in court, one disposed to act as a friend in a place of special opportunity or influence.

    To be friends with, to have friendly relations with. ``He's . . . friends with C[ae]sar.''
    --Shak.

    To make friends with, to become reconciled to or on friendly terms with. ``Having now made friends with the Athenians.''
    --Jowett (Thucyd.).

Friend

Friend \Friend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Friended; p. pr. & vb. n. Friending.] To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend. [Obs.]

Fortune friends the bold.
--Spenser.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
friend

Old English freond "one attached to another by feelings of personal regard and preference," from Proto-Germanic *frijand- "lover, friend" (cognates: Old Norse frændi, Old Danish frynt, Old Frisian friund, Dutch vriend, Middle High German friunt, German Freund, Gothic frijonds "friend"), from PIE *priy-ont-, "loving," present participle form of root *pri- "to love" (see free (adj.)).\n

\nMeaning "a Quaker" (a member of the Society of Friends) is from 1670s. Feond ("fiend," originally "enemy") and freond often were paired alliteratively in Old English; both are masculine agent nouns derived from present participle of verbs, but they are not directly related to one another (see fiend). Related: Friends.

friend

in the Facebook sense, attested from 2005, from the noun. Friend occasionally has been used as a verb in English since c.1200 ("to be friends"), though the more usual verb for "join in friendship, act as a friend" is befriend. Related: Friended; friending. Old English had freonsped "an abundance of friends" (see speed (n.)); freondleast "want of friends;" freondspedig "rich in friends."

Wiktionary
friend

n. A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection. vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete English) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help. 2 (context transitive English) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.

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WordNet
friend

  1. n. a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; "he was my best friend at the university"

  2. an associate who provides assistance; "he's a good ally in fight"; "they were friends of the workers" [syn: ally] [ant: foe]

  3. a person with whom you are acquainted; "I have trouble remembering the names of all my acquaintances"; "we are friends of the family" [syn: acquaintance]

  4. a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library" [syn: supporter, protagonist, champion, admirer, booster]

  5. a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers) [syn: Quaker]

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Gazetteer
Friend, NE -- U.S. city in Nebraska
Population (2000): 1174
Housing Units (2000): 516
Land area (2000): 0.796804 sq. miles (2.063713 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.796804 sq. miles (2.063713 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17775
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 40.652095 N, 97.285731 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 68359
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Friend, NE
Friend
Wikipedia
Friend (novel)

Friend is a 1985 science fiction horror novel by Diana Henstell, about a young man who tries to help a dying friend survive by implanting a microchip into her, only to find that it turns her into a monster. The novel was adapted into the 1986 film Deadly Friend, directed by Wes Craven and screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin.

Friend (album)

Friend is an album in 2002 by S.E.S.. This is S.E.S.' last Korean album. It sold approximately 95,000 copies. The single was "S.II.S (Soul To Soul)", but the group never performed it on television.

The album was also released in some parts of Asia, particularly Philippines, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Friend (EP)

Friend is an EP by the Brooklyn-based band Grizzly Bear, their first release following the critically acclaimed Yellow House. It was released on November 5, 2007 on Warp Records. The EP has tracks recorded during sessions for the Yellow House album, as well as covers of their songs by Band of Horses, CSS, and Atlas Sound.

Friend (2001 film)

Friend is a 2001 South Korean film written and directed by Kwak Kyung-taek. Upon its release, it became the highest-grossing South Korean movie of all time. Its record was surpassed in 2003 by Silmido.

This film is the director's experience about his friends, a semi- autobiography set in his hometown, Busan, and the actors speak with a strongly accented Busan dialect. The film changed the public images of Jang Dong-gun and Yu Oh-seong; previously, Jang had been famous for romantic comedies and Yu had appeared in movies with mostly cult interest.

Friend (automobile)

The Friend was an automobile manufactured in Pontiac, Michigan by the Friend Motors Corporation in 1920. Otis Friend had taken over the Olympian Motor Company in 1920, and manufactured that car until the car named after himself was ready. The Friend was shown at the New York Automobile Show in January 1921, featured a four-cylinder engine, a 112-inch (2842mm) wheelbase, and had a five-seater, two-door roadster body. Wooden artillery and wire wheels were options. The Friend originally sold for $1585. With sales sluggish, the price was reduced further to $1185, but this had no effect, and production ended with fewer than fifty cars built. A six-cylinder model was planned, but the company went out of business before any were manufactured.

Friend (2009 film)

Friend is a 2009 Bengali science fiction film directed by Satabdi Roy. The film is starring Satabdi Roy, Soumitra Chatterjee, Supriya Chowdhury, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Biswanath Basu, Ridhima Ghosh, Shayak & Tapas Paul

Friend (surname)

Friend is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Andy Friend (born 1969), Australian rugby union coach
  • Bob Friend (born 1930), American Major League baseball player
  • Bob Friend (newscaster) (1938 - 2008), British newscaster
  • Charlotte Friend (1921 - 1987), American virologist
  • Clayton Friend (born 1964), New Zealand professional rugby league player
  • Cliff Friend (1893 - 1974), American songwriter and pianist
  • Danny Friend (1875 - 1942), American Major League baseball player
  • Donald Friend (1915 - 1989), Australian artist, writer and diarist
  • George Friend (born 1987), English footballer
  • George Friend (parliamentary official) (1835 - 1898), 3rd Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives
  • Hugo Friend (1882 - 1966), American athlete
  • Jacob Elias Friend (1857 - 1912), American state legislator, lawyer and businessman
  • Jake Friend (born 1990), Australian rugby league player
  • John Friend (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Lonn Friend (born 1956), American journalist and author
  • Lovick Friend (1856 - 1944), British Army major general
  • Natasha Friend (born 1972), American author
  • Nathan Friend (born 1981), Australian rugby league footballer
  • Oscar J. Friend (1897 - 1963), American pulp-fiction author
  • Owen Friend (1927 - 2007), American Major League baseball player
  • Patricia A. Friend, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants
  • Peter Friend (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Phyllis Friend (1922 – 2013), British nurse
  • Quinton Friend (born 1982), South African cricketer
  • Rachel Friend (born 1970), Australian actress
  • Richard Friend (born 1953), British physicist
  • Rob Friend (born 1981), Canadian soccer player
  • Robert Friend (1913 - 1998), American poet
  • Rupert Friend (born 1981), English actor
  • Simon Friend (born 1967), English singer-songwriter
  • Tad Friend (born 1962), American journalist
  • Theodore Friend (born 1931), American academic
  • Travis Friend (born 1981), Zimbabwean international cricketer
  • William Benedict Friend (born 1931), Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Shreveport, Louisiana
Friend (Christine McVie song)

"Friend" is a 2004 song from Fleetwood Mac's keyboardist/vocalist Christine McVie. The song was written by McVie, Robbie Patton, George Hawkins, and McVie's nephew Dan Perfect. The song reached #29 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Chart in 2004.

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Usage examples of "friend".

I love thee, but I should be an untrue friend did I abet thee in thy lawlessness.

Now Ralph, he and his, being known for friends, these wild men could not make enough of them, and as it were, compelled them to abide there three days, feasting them, and making them all the cheer they might.

Weeden gave it to his companion after the end, as a mute clue to the abnormality which had occurred, or whether, as is more probable, Smith had it before, and added the underscoring himself from what he had managed to extract from his friend by shrewd guessing and adroit cross-questioning.

Some people even called up and wanted to record the historic moment when they were aborted by Rush Limbaugh so they could play it for friends.

An elderly family friend had abused her when she was six, and she had been indecently assaulted in a Gloucester park at the age of thirteen.

But Mary was shy of acceding to such invitations and at last frankly told her friend Patience, that she would not again break bread in Greshamsbury in any house in which she was not thought fit to meet the other guests who habitually resorted there.

This man was her friend, buyer of unneeded pickups, acceptor of her erotic video collection.

That was not a good thing to do if you wanted Granny Aching to be your friend.

Robespierre was attended with fatal consequences to him, and that his justification consisted in acknowledging that his friends were very different from what he had supposed them to be.

Now, Ferguson, to put your charges against Rochester in concrete form, you believe that he was insanely jealous of Jimmie Turnbull, that he recognized him in the Police Court in his burglar disguise, slipped a dose of aconitine in a glass of water which Turnbull drank, and after declaring that his friend had died from angina pectoris, disappeared.

But the acoustics of the shaft magnify and multiply the sound so forebodingly that Amsel stops in the middle of his skulduggery, looks behind him over his rounded back, and turns the flashlight on his friend.

I must now acquaint you with a piece of news, which, I believe, will afflict my friends more than it hath afflicted me.

I can assure you that the friend, to whom we will give a spectacle worthy of Paphos and Amathos, shall see or hear nothing likely to make him suppose that I am acquainted with his secret.

As I was obliged to keep my room, I let my friends know of my confinement, and I received visits from dancers and ballet-girls, who were the only decent people I was acquainted with in that wretched Stuttgart, where I had better never have set foot.

It was at the house of these friends that Casanova became acquainted with the poet, Lorenzo Da Ponte.