FRIENDS Synonyms
There are 27 hypernyms of the word friends. (close relations)
Best Alternative Words for FRIENDS
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acquaintance | nounn | |||||||
noun • personal knowledge or information about someone or something • a relationship less intimate than friendship • a person with whom you are acquainted | ||||||||
admirer | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person who backs a politician or a team etc. • a person who admires; someone who esteems or respects or approves • someone who admires a young woman | ||||||||
ally | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • a friendly nation • an associate who provides cooperation or assistance verb • become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage | ||||||||
booster | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person who backs a politician or a team etc. • someone who is an active supporter and advocate • a thief who steals goods that are in a store • an amplifier for restoring the strength of a transmitted signal • the first stage of a multistage rocket • an additional dose that makes sure the first dose was effective | ||||||||
champion | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • someone who has won first place in a competition • someone who fights for a cause • a person who backs a politician or a team etc. • someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field adjective satellite • holding first place in a contest verb • protect or fight for as a champion | ||||||||
protagonist | noun, adjectiven, adj | |||||||
noun • a person who backs a politician or a team etc. • the principal character in a work of fiction | ||||||||
supporter | nounn | |||||||
noun • a person who backs a politician or a team etc. • someone who supports or champions something • a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose • a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve) • a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise | ||||||||
befriend | verbv | |||||||
verb • become friends with | ||||||||
buddy | nounn | |||||||
noun • a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities | ||||||||
buster | verb, noun, adjectivev, n, adj | |||||||
noun • an informal form of address for a man • a robust child • a person who breaks horses • a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something • a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically | ||||||||
contact | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • close interaction • the act of touching physically • the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity • the physical coming together of two or more things • a person who is in a position to give you special assistance • a channel for communication between groups • (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact • a communicative interaction • a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication verb • be in or establish communication with • be in direct physical contact with; make contact | ||||||||
mate | verb, nounv, n | |||||||
noun • the officer below the master on a commercial ship • a fellow member of a team • the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) • a person's partner in marriage • an exact duplicate • one of a pair • South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea • informal term for a friend of the same sex • South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate • a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king verb • engage in sexual intercourse • bring two objects, ideas, or people together • place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | ||||||||
pal | nounn | |||||||
noun • a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities verb • become friends; act friendly towards | ||||||||
quaker | nounn | |||||||
noun • a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers) • one who quakes and trembles with (or as with) fear | ||||||||
sonny | nounn | |||||||
noun • a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) |