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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
friendship
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a gesture of friendship
▪ He invited the two men to his house as a gesture of friendship.
an offer of help/support/friendship etc
▪ Any offers of help would be appreciated.
renew a friendship/acquaintance etc (=become friendly with someone again)
ties of marriage/friendship/blood etc
▪ The ties of friendship that unite the two countries.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
▪ Likewise, close friendships sometimes alter when one friend retires - and not the other.
▪ Rosen has worked politically for Kennedy since his 1980 presidential primary run and developed a close friendship with the senator.
▪ Learning to play with other children and to form close friendships with some of them is a vital part of growing up.
▪ Moses, 24, has a close friendship with Keim, 17, who won her first national title.
▪ Gimson was a deeply solitary man with a contradictory need for close male friendships.
▪ But now Joe was more presentable, and he formed a close friendship with both Katharine and Phil Graham.
▪ Eline envied the close friendship the two so obviously enjoyed.
▪ Joe and Chip became acquainted through club functions and developed a close friendship.
deep
▪ Their deep friendship would be lifelong.
▪ Tracy shows us these friendships subconsciously and shows us a scene of deep friendship.
▪ His personal character is difficult to fathom, but he had a capacity for deep and long-lasting friendships.
lasting
▪ Minton introduced him to Denis Wirth-Miller and Richard Chopping with whom he formed a lasting friendship.
▪ I have made lots of lasting friendships along my Guiding road as I have through Medau and think myself lucky.
▪ Above all, however, is the recurring theme of lasting friendship.
▪ Social clubs especially for hard-of-hearing people may create lasting friendships and opportunities for service.
▪ You meet some delightful people and lasting friendships result - being a husband and wife team helps.
▪ There were many crew changes therefore lasting friendships did not have time to mature.
lifelong
▪ When it does work, lifelong friendships can be forged with those you might never otherwise have been likely to meet.
▪ Theirs is a complex and lifelong friendship, even when the tumult of the times separates them for many years.
▪ Salisbury spoke-with great emotion, almost in tears-of his lifelong friendship.
long
▪ So began my long friendship with Elizabeth Taylor and her writing.
▪ Much, if not all, of the tone of our long friendship was set that first night.
▪ That was the start of a long and warm friendship with the Edwards family.
▪ And in the long run the friendships formed in these social situations can be a powerful force in decision making.
▪ The ties have always been close and have become stronger during the long years of friendship and co-operation.
▪ But we had saved the day, and our long friendship.
▪ She and Justine developed a long distance friendship, cemented by immensely long letters on wafer thin paper.
new
▪ The Ottoman Empire, meanwhile, sensed the beginning of new friendships.
▪ Because you are also likely to be valuable to your new acquaintances, friendships develop.
▪ Joan and Jack enjoy meeting their guests and many breakfasts stretch into the mid-morning as new friendships are made.
▪ He cherished the new friendships he had made and took pride in the identity he was creating for himself.
▪ They have less opportunity to make new friendships and tend to depend for companionship on the continuity of longstanding relationships.
▪ She planned a party to bring this person together with that one, to celebrate a new friendship.
▪ Yet already they were ungrateful recalcitrant children, escaping from him in all directions, capable of forming new friendships and attachments.
▪ After the bitterness had gone, they forged a new friendship, but the flames of romance were not rekindled.
old
▪ This severity of customs was inseparable from the old friendship with Rome.
▪ However, I still have old close friendships as well as blossoming friendships amongst new women friends.
▪ These served to establish claims, to recall old friendship, to jog the memory about old times.
▪ But now I feared I was getting too old for romantic friendships.
▪ He was not the sort of man who gets sentimental about old friendships.
▪ I was forgetting your old friendship with George.
▪ After failing in a rebellion in the hill country, they settled at Delphoi, where they had old family friendships.
▪ Just an old, sentimental friendship.
personal
▪ It wasn't long before the personal friendship became a working set-up, too.
▪ Army officers whose commissions were based on nothing more than a personal friendship with Santa Anna were relieved of their commands.
▪ Malcolm Wilcox was drawn to Crocker through his personal friendship with its chairman, Thomas Wilcox.
▪ Although from different ends of the political spectrum, Mr Kohl and Mitterrand enjoyed a long-standing and close personal friendship.
▪ Yet throughout the narrative, Prost's awareness of the dividing line between professional respect and personal friendship is firmly evident.
real
▪ Small wonder then, that real friendship for them comes from some one who deep down understands what this involves.
▪ But it turned into a real good friendship.
▪ I formed a real friendship with the transvestite man who owned the house where I lived.
▪ Saying goodbye twice: a sign of real friendship.
▪ It is one of the few gestures of real friendship encountered by this lonely man in his long and tormented odyssey.
warm
▪ That was the start of a long and warm friendship with the Edwards family.
▪ A new home I spent a month at Moor House, in an atmosphere of warm friendship.
■ NOUN
treaty
▪ Included in the friendship treaty was a defence co-operation agreement, covering material provision for the armed forces and officer training.
■ VERB
begin
▪ So began my long friendship with Elizabeth Taylor and her writing.
▪ Thus began a friendship that-aside from religion and my own family has been my most enriching life experience.
▪ And so began a friendship that before Ellie knew it had become a courtship.
▪ In her isolation, she began to doubt her friendships.
develop
▪ She and Justine developed a long distance friendship, cemented by immensely long letters on wafer thin paper.
▪ He developed a friendship with Jack Nicklaus, who asked Mulvoy to co-author his first instructional book.
▪ Personal I am an outgoing, sociable person and make and develop business and ordinary friendships easily.
▪ Rosen has worked politically for Kennedy since his 1980 presidential primary run and developed a close friendship with the senator.
▪ Sean had good relationships with some teachers and as he grew older, he developed more friendships.
▪ Telbis-Preis developed a secret friendship with the diplomats, who would often dote over her young son, Nicolae.
▪ Alvin also developed a lasting friendship with Duvall, with whom he shared a birthdate.
▪ Joe and Chip became acquainted through club functions and developed a close friendship.
enjoy
▪ Goodman was always hard up and enjoyed the friendship and generosity of friends such as Francis Bacon who would help him out.
▪ It is evident that many Volunteers enjoy close friendships with some of their students in and outside the classroom.
▪ The Prince could relax, be himself and simply enjoy her friendship.
establish
▪ What benefits might there be from establishing a friendship with the aliens?
▪ He feels the nomadic lifestyle contributed to a shyness which has made it difficult for him to establish close friendships ever since.
▪ They establish transcultural friendships and come not only to accept but to enjoy their experiences.
▪ I never established anything like a friendship with him, but our paths did cross from time to time.
▪ The banter was an excellent sign that the crew were very willing to establish solid cooperation and friendship based on mutual tolerance.
extend
▪ That bossy controlling outlook also extends to friendships.
forge
▪ Hardly enough time to forge a friendship before getting down to business.
▪ After the bitterness had gone, they forged a new friendship, but the flames of romance were not rekindled.
form
▪ I formed a real friendship with the transvestite man who owned the house where I lived.
▪ But now Joe was more presentable, and he formed a close friendship with both Katharine and Phil Graham.
▪ Minton introduced him to Denis Wirth-Miller and Richard Chopping with whom he formed a lasting friendship.
▪ QueequegOne of the harpooners who forms a friendship with Ishmael.
▪ Learning to play with other children and to form close friendships with some of them is a vital part of growing up.
▪ Then as the foal matures, it will form friendships with other horses and develop affection for them too.
▪ She had even formed friendships with the cook and the two maidservants.
▪ But he had not yet formed any firm friendships.
keep
▪ Why not just keep the friendship going?
▪ She and Laura continued to keep up their friendship through frequent telephone calls and meeting for lunch at least once a month.
▪ Roy knew that Michael kept up a friendship with them.
▪ She kept her friendship with us secret.
▪ We hope you are proud of your university and we hope to keep your friendship as we plan its future.
▪ When they met at parties Nigel continued to keep up a surface friendship.
▪ These days, I only play rock to keep up friendships and meet the new generation.
maintain
▪ Diana later realized that Camilla saw Charles's love of hunting as a conduit to maintaining her own friendship.
▪ And of course we have to maintain friendships with all blocs.
▪ Some wanted to maintain long-term friendships, having known each other from school or college.
offer
▪ He offered his friendship to no one.
▪ If Sofia ever felt safe enough to offer friendship again, he decided, friendship would be enough for him.
renew
▪ It also renewed her interrupted friendship with Alix.
strike
▪ He and Matthew struck up a friendship - they had something in common; their attitude to life.
▪ At that time Worsley, who is married to Moody, had also struck up a friendship with Nance.
▪ Alone and friendless, she had struck up a casual friendship with Dermot as he showed her Dublin.
▪ Peggy and James strike up a friendship.
▪ Eleanor wrote back wittily and they struck up a friendship.
▪ He appeared to have struck up a useful friendship with the minister for industry, Sean McEntee, among others.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
presume on/upon sb's friendship/generosity etc
▪ I will not presume upon your friendship any further.
strike up a friendship/relationship/conversation etc
▪ At that time Worsley, who is married to Moody, had also struck up a friendship with Nance.
▪ Besides, Anna had struck up a conversation with a young girl who'd been swimming in the pool.
▪ Demonstrators will attempt to surround the police, strike up conversations and present them with letters.
▪ Eleanor wrote back wittily and they struck up a friendship.
▪ He struck up a conversation, first asking his name.
▪ He and Matthew struck up a friendship - they had something in common; their attitude to life.
▪ Others prefer to strike up a conversation with table mates.
▪ Peggy and James strike up a friendship.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bernstein's visit to Copland's studio led to a friendship between the two composers.
▪ I had no close friendships with other boys at school.
▪ In his speech, Irving talked about the importance of friendship and loyalty.
▪ Our friendship developed quickly over the weeks that followed.
▪ Our marriage is based on friendship, love, and trust.
▪ We didn't see each other much during that time, but our friendship remained strong.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ However, I feel sure she values her friendship with me enough to play it our way.
▪ Now the woman is hoping to raise over £100,000 by selling souvenirs of her friendship.
▪ On the other hand, did he need their friendship enough to risk his safety?
▪ Right from childhood, he had recognized that these great beasts had potential for almost limitless friendship and loyalty.
▪ Strong friendship takes time to build.
▪ The atmosphere is relaxed and convivial and friendships are often forged after dinner in the lounge.
▪ Through it all, the ties of friendship prove stronger than wildly varied personal agendas and abject stupidity.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Friendship

Friendship \Friend"ship\, n. [AS. fre['o]ndscipe. See Friend, and -ship.]

  1. 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.

    There is little friendship in the world.
    --Bacon.

    There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
    --Rambler.

    Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency.
    --Spenser.

  2. Kindly aid; help; assistance, [Obs.]

    Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest.
    --Shak.

  3. Aptness to unite; conformity; affinity; harmony; correspondence. [Obs.]

    Those colors . . . have a friendship with each other.
    --Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
friendship

Old English freondscipe "friendship, mutual liking and regard," also "conjugal love;" see friend (n.) + -ship. Similar formation in Dutch vriendschap, German Freundschaft, Swedish frändskap.\n

Wiktionary
friendship

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The condition of being friends. 2 (context countable English) A friendly relationship, or a relationship as friends. 3 (context uncountable English) good will.

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WordNet
friendship

n. the state of being friends [syn: friendly relationship]

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Gazetteer
Friendship, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 206
Housing Units (2000): 83
Land area (2000): 0.734614 sq. miles (1.902642 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.734614 sq. miles (1.902642 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25180
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 34.223845 N, 93.003182 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 71942
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Friendship, AR
Friendship
Friendship, NY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New York
Population (2000): 1176
Housing Units (2000): 535
Land area (2000): 2.751688 sq. miles (7.126838 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.751688 sq. miles (7.126838 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27694
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.207455 N, 78.139606 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 14739
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Friendship, NY
Friendship
Friendship, TN -- U.S. city in Tennessee
Population (2000): 608
Housing Units (2000): 264
Land area (2000): 1.303705 sq. miles (3.376581 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.303705 sq. miles (3.376581 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27960
Located within: Tennessee (TN), FIPS 47
Location: 35.910370 N, 89.241827 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 38034
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Friendship, TN
Friendship
Friendship, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 698
Housing Units (2000): 294
Land area (2000): 0.886474 sq. miles (2.295958 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.033735 sq. miles (0.087373 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.920209 sq. miles (2.383331 sq. km)
FIPS code: 27950
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 43.971758 N, 89.818718 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 53934
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Friendship, WI
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Wikipedia
Friendship (Pittsburgh)

Friendship is a neighborhood of large Victorian houses in the East End of the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, about four miles (6 km) east of Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle. Friendship is bordered on the north by Garfield (at Penn Avenue), on the east by East Liberty (at Negley Avenue), on the south by Shadyside (at Centre Avenue), and on the west by Bloomfield (at Gross St). It is divided into 3 Pittsburgh City Council districts (7, 8, & 9).

Friendship (disambiguation)

Friendship is co-operative and supportive behavior between two or more humans.

Friendship may also refer to:

Friendship (film)

Friendship (also known as Friendship You and Me) is a 2008 Thai Romantic-Drama Teen Film starring Mario Maurer and Apinya Sakuljaroensuk (Ploy) directed by Chatchai Naksuriya. The film is around 1972 setting and is about Singha and Mituna's endless love for each other. The film starts with the present and goes back to the past of their high school days.

Friendship (Stevensville, Maryland)

Friendship is a historic home located at Stevensville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It is a -story dwelling of Flemish bond brick construction and was built in two stages, both dating to the 18th century. The earliest section is traditionally believed to date to the 1740s. Also on the property is a frame smoke house and dairy.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

Friendship (Lee Ritenour album)

Friendship is a studio album by Lee Ritenour released in 1978. This album was recorded direct to a master disc, with each side of the LP one continuous performance.

Friendship (The Redneck Manifesto album)

Friendship is the fourth album by Dublin-based instrumental rock band The Redneck Manifesto. Released on 26 March 2010, it was the band's first full-length in six years, and their first record since signing to Richter Collective. To promote Friendship, tracks "Black Apple" and "Smile More" were available to download on Nialler9 and Thumped respectively.

Friendship (Ray Charles album)

Friendship is a studio album by American artist Ray Charles. It was released in 1984 via Columbia Records. The album peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.

Friendship

Friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between people. Friendship is a stronger form of interpersonal bond than an association. Friendship has been studied in academic fields such as sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and philosophy. Various academic theories of friendship have been proposed, including social exchange theory, equity theory, relational dialectics, and attachment styles. A World Happiness Database study found that people with close friendships are happier.

Although there are many forms of friendship, some of which may vary from place to place, certain characteristics are present in many types of bond. Such characteristics include affection, sympathy, empathy, honesty, altruism, mutual understanding, and compassion, enjoyment of each other's company, trust, and the ability to be oneself, express one's feelings, and make mistakes without fear of judgment from the friend.

While there is no practical limit on what types of people can form a friendship, friends tend to share common backgrounds, occupations, or interests and have similar demographics.

Friendship (NGO)

Friendship is a needs-based non-governmental organization that works in the most remote and inaccessible islands, riverbanks of northern Bangladesh and the remote coastal belt in the south. Established by Runa Khan in 2002, Friendship works to empower people through a sustainable, integrated development approach.

Friendship employees more than 1,500 employees that includes field staff, regional office staff, staff in the floating hospitals, teachers at Friendship schools, trainers at vocational schools, organizers and supervisors working in the northern and southern parts of the country and head office staff based in Dhaka.

Friendship (ship)

A number of sailing ships have been named Friendship:

  • Friendship - a ketch launched in 1705 for the Bengal Pilot service.
  • Friendship (1784), a 278 ton ( bm) brig built in Scarborough in 1784, that transported convicts to Botany Bay in 1788, as part of the First Fleet. She was scuttled in 1788.
  • Friendship (1793), was a three-decker merchantman launched in 1793. She made three voyages for the British East India Company (EIC). During her first voyage, in 1796, a French privateer captured her, but the Royal Navy recaptured her. On the second, in 1799, she transported convicts from Ireland to Australia. She made a second voyage transporting convicts in 1817-18. On her way back she was broken up in 1819 at Mauritius after having been found unseaworthy.
  • Friendship, an East Indiaman built at Salem, Massachusetts, and launched in 1797; the British captured her in 1812.
  • Friendship (1824), a schooner of 120 tons (bm), built at Barnstaple for White & Co. (Van Dieman's Land Co.).
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Usage examples of "friendship".

But it never amounted to anything more than warm friendship, as his love for his free and adventurous life was much stronger than any chains Cupid could weave.

He had been released temporarily from duty in the aerology lab but McDevitt, who was a tactful and sympathetic person and had been aware of the friendship developing between the boy and Beetchermarlf.

Mark Twain wrote: I must steal half a moment from my work to say how glad I am to have your book and how highly I value it, both for its own sake and as a remembrance of an affectionate friendship which has subsisted between us for nine years without a break and without a single act of violence that I can call to mind.

He had lost friends before, and his friendship with Ager during the Slaver War largely had been largely professional, not personal.

Everything Alec had learned of the friendship between these two seemed to come together and spin itself into a long history in which he had only the most fleeting foothold.

In 1832, a treaty, bearing date the 20th of April, was executed between the British government in India and Meermoorad Ali, who at that time was the principal Ameer of Scinde, in which a bond of friendship was entered into, and mutual commerce was agreed upon.

His friendship with Amir Bedawi went back fifteen years to their boyhood, though there were no obligations to either party in that timely association.

Seeing her every day, I had dispersed my amorous fancies, and friendship and gratitude seemed to have vanquished all other feelings, for I was obliged to confess that this charming girl had lavished on me the most tender and assiduous care.

I treated her sisters as if they had been my sisters, shewing no recollection of the favours I had obtained from them, and never taking the slightest liberty, for I knew that friendship between women will hardly brook amorous rivalry.

I swallowed the warmth of a summer day, and then breathed out through my open mouth, tasting apricots and friendship as I held the flask out to him.

Volumes and volumes have been written about these unions which, under the name of guilds, brotherhoods, friendships and druzhestva, minne, artels in Russia, esnaifs in Servia and Turkey, amkari in Georgia, and so on, took such a formidable development in medieval times and played such an important part in the emancipation of the cities.

During one of the most glorious years of my life, in the period which is marked for me by the erection of the Pantheon, I had you elected, out of friendship for your family, to the sacred college of the Arval Brethren, over which the emperor presides, and which devoutly perpetuates our ancient Roman religious customs.

We now come to the views of Savary, the Due de Rovigo, who avowedly remained on good terms with Bourrienne after his disgrace, though the friendship of Savary was not exactly a thing that most men would have much prided themselves on.

I did all I could to dry her tears, and she begged me to be a father to her, assuring me that she would never again do anything to render her unworthy of my friendship, and that she would always be guided by my advice.

I noticed that my future brother-in-law admired a little gold case on my night-table, so I begged him to accept it as a souvenir of our friendship.