different between friends vs friendly

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /f??n(d)z/

Noun

friends

1. plural of friend

Noun

friends pl (plural only)

1. Participants in a two-way friendship relationship.

   I tried to be a friend to Jane but we never really made friends. She was never a friend to me.

   Jane and I made friends right away.

   We became friends in the war and remain friends to this day.

   We were friends with some girls from the other school and stayed friends with them.

Usage notes

• We usually make a friend, or make friends with someone. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Derived terms

• just friends
• more than friends

Translations

Verb

friends

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of friend

Anagrams

• finders, redfins, refinds

Spanish

Noun

friends m pl

1. plural of friend

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??ndli/, /?f??nli/

Etymology 1

From Middle English frendly, freendly, frendely, frendlich, from Old English fr?ondl??, from Proto-Germanic *frij?ndl?kaz, equivalent to friend +? -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian früntelk, fjuntelk (“friendly”), West Frisian freonlik (“friendly”), Dutch vriendelijk (“friendly”), German Low German fründelk, frünnelk (“friendly”), German freundlich (“friendly”).

Adjective

friendly (comparative friendlier or more friendly, superlative friendliest or most friendly)

1. Generally warm, approachable and easy to relate with in character.
2. Inviting, characteristic of friendliness.

3. Having an easy or accepting relationship with something.

4. Without any hostility.
5. Promoting the good of any person; favourable; propitious.

   • On the first friendly bank he throws him down.

6. (military) Of or pertaining to friendlies (friendly noun sense 2, below). Also applied to other bipolar confrontations, such as team sports
7. (number theory) Being or relating to two or more natural numbers with a common abundancy.

8. (in compounds) Compatible with, or not damaging to (the compounded noun).

Antonyms

• hostile
• unfriendly

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

friendly (plural friendlies)

1. (sports) A game which is of no consequence in terms of ranking, betting etc.

   This match is merely a friendly, so don't worry too much about it.
2. A person or entity on the same side in a conflict.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English frendly, frendliche, from Old English fr?ondl??e (“in a friendly manner”), equivalent to friend +? -ly.

Adverb

friendly (comparative more friendly, superlative most friendly)

1. (archaic) In a friendly manner, like a friend.

Synonyms

• amicably, friendlily

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