different between visitor vs friend

English

Alternative forms

• visitour (obsolete)
• visiter (archaic)

Etymology

Partly from Middle English visiter, visitere, equivalent to visit +? -er; and partly from Middle English visitour, from Anglo-Norman visitour, from Old French visetëor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?z?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?z?t?/
• Hyphenation: vis?it?or
• Rhymes: -?z?t?(?)

Noun

visitor (plural visitors)

1. Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
2. Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.

3. (sports, usually in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
4. A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.
5. (ufology) An extraterrestrial being on Earth for any reason.
   • 1979, Chris Boyce, Extraterrestrial Encounter: a Personal Perspective, Chartwell Books, page 184:

     5: Of course there is always the remote (I hope) possibility that instant panic will prompt us to send a hailstorm of nuclear warheads out upon the visitor.

   • 2001, Donald Goldsmith, Tobias C. Owen, The Search for Life in the Universe, University Science Books, page 511:

     When we ask what evidence does in fact exist of extraterrestrial sojourns on our planet, we can start with what would surely be the best evidence of all: an actual visitor, or group of visitors, visible to crowds of people and ready for photo opportunities, television interviews, handshakes, polite conversation, and dancing.

   • 2004, Carol Schwartz Ellis, Sean Redmond (editor), With Eyes Uplifted: Space Aliens as Sky Gods in Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader, Wallflower Press, page 145:

     The visitor in Man Facing South-east claims pure altruism; Rantes (Hugo Soto) wants to alleviate the suffering of the poor and helpless.

   • 2007, Frank G. Wilkinson, The Golden Age of Flying Saucers: Classic UFO Sightings, Saucer Crashes and Extraterrestrial Contact Encounters, Lulu.com, page 37:

     The tower radioed the flight leader, Captain Thomas F. Mantell, Jr., and requested that he engage and attempt to identify the strange visitor.

6. An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
   • 1869, James Merrill Safford, Geology of Tennessee, S. C. Mercer, page 520:

     Within a few months, another small meteoric mass has been added to the list of those extra-terrestrial bodies which have fallen within the limits of Tennessee. This recent visitor is a stone, weighing, when first obtained, three pounds.

   • 1977, John Philip Cohane, Paradox: the Case for the Extraterrestrial Origin of Man, Crown Publishers, page 154:

     This satellite, they suspect, is a visitor sent by the “superior beings” of a community of other stars within our Milky Way galaxy.

   • 2005, J. Douglas Kenyon, Forbidden History: Prehistoric Technologies, Extraterrestrial Intervention, And The Suppressed Origins Of Civilization, Inner Traditions * Bear & Company, page 64:

     Though Clube and Napier’s cometary visitor was not a planet, the story is surprisingly close to that of Worlds in Collision.

7. (Britain) A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc.
8. (software engineering) The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.

Derived terms

• visitorship

Translations

Anagrams

• ivorist

Latin

Verb

v?sitor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of v?sit?

English

Etymology

From Middle English frend, freend, from Old English fr?ond (“friend, relative, lover”, literally “loving[-one]”), from Proto-Germanic *frij?ndz (“lover, friend”), from Proto-Indo-European *preyH- (“to like, love”), equivalent to free +? -nd. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Früünd (“friend”), West Frisian freon, froen, freondinne (“friend”), Dutch vriend (“friend”), Low German Frund, Fründ (“friend, relative”), German Freund (“friend”), Danish frænde (“kinsman”), Swedish frände (“kinsman, relative”), Icelandic frændi (“kinsman”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (frij?nds, “friend”). More at free.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fr?nd, IPA^(key): /f??nd/, [f??end?]
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /fr?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

friend (plural friends)

1. A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.

2. An associate who provides assistance.

3. A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.

4. A person who backs or supports something.

5. (informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.

6. (colloquial, ironic, used only in the vocative) Used as a form of address when warning someone.

7. (object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.
8. (climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.
   • 1995, Rock Climbing Basics

     Since they were introduced in the 1970s, friends have revolutionized climbing, making protection possible in previously impossible places […]

9. (euphemistic) A lover; a boyfriend or girlfriend.
   • 1813, Samuel Foote, The Commissary, Etc., page 17:

     Time has been, when a gentleman wanted a friend, I could supply him with choice in an hour; but the market is spoiled, and a body might as soon produce a hare or a partridge […]

   • 1975, Janis Ian, "In the Winter":

     I met your friend. She's very nice, what can I say?

10. (Scotland, obsolete) A relative, a relation by blood or marriage.

    Friends agree best at a distance.

    Make friends of framet folk.

    • 1895, Crockett, Bog-Myrtle, 232:

      He was not a drop's blood to me, though him and my wife were far-out friends.

Synonyms

• (person whose company one enjoys): See Thesaurus:friend
• (boyfriend or girlfriend): See Thesaurus:lover
• (person with whom you are acquainted): acquaintance, contact
• (person who provides assistance): ally
• (person who backs something): admirer, booster, champion, protagonist, supporter
• (form of address used in warning someone): buster, mate (British), pal, buddy, sonny

Antonyms

• (person whose company one enjoys): See Thesaurus:enemy
• (person with whom you are acquainted): stranger
• (person who provides assistance): enemy, foe

Usage notes

• We usually make a friend, or make friends with someone. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
• In older texts and certain dialects, the phrase to friend means "as a friend or an ally", for example? "with God to frend (Spenser)". The antonym to the phrase to friend is to fiend.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Cantonese: friend (fen¹)
• ? Serbo-Croatian:
  • Latin: fr?nd
  • Cyrillic: ??????

Translations

See friend/translations § Noun.

Verb

friend (third-person singular simple present friends, present participle friending, simple past and past participle friended)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:

     Lo sluggish Knight the victors happie pray: / So fortune friends the bold [...].

   • 1896, Alfred Edward Housman, A Shropshire Lad, LXII:

     ’Tis true, the stuff I bring for sale
     Is not so brisk a brew as ale:
     Out of a stem that scored the hand
     I wrung it in a weary land.
     But take it: if the smack is sour,
     The better for the embittered hour;
     It should do good to heart and head
     When your soul is in my soul’s stead;
     And I will friend you, if I may,
     In the dark and cloudy day.

2. (transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
   • 2006, David Fono and Kate Raynes-Goldie, "Hyperfriendship and Beyond: Friends and Social Norms on LiveJournal" (PDF version), Internet Research Annual Volume 4, Peter Lang, ?ISBN, page 99,

     The difference between responses to the statement, "If someone friends me, I will friend them," and "If I friend someone, I expect them to friend me back," is telling.

   • 2006, Kevin Farnham and Dale G. Farnham, Myspace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens And Parents, How-To Primers, ?ISBN, page 69,

     One of the most used features of MySpace is the practice that is nicknamed "friending." If you "friend" someone, then that person is added to your MySpace friends list, and you are added to their friends list.

Synonyms

• (to act as the friend of): befriend

Antonyms

• (social networking): defriend, unfriend

Translations

Anagrams

• Friden, finder, frined, redfin, refin'd, refind

Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English friend.

Pronunciation

Noun

friend

1. (Cantonese) friend (Classifier: ???)

   ????friend??? [Cantonese, trad.]
   ????friend??? [Cantonese, simp.]

   keoi⁵ hai⁶ ngo⁵ go³ fen¹ lai⁴ gaa³. [Jyutping]

   He's my friend.

   • ??friend????????????????????????????? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ??friend??“?????????????????????????” [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2008, ??? (Jessica Li), ?????????????????? (Theft and delinquency: juvenile crime prevention theories and practice), page 180

     ngo⁵ go³ fen¹ waa⁶: “M⁴ wui⁵ seoi¹ ge³, bin¹ jau⁵ gam³ jung⁴ ji⁶ aa¹, sai³ gaai³ gam³ do¹ jan⁴ sei² jau⁶ m⁴ gin³ nei⁵ heoi³ sei².” [Jyutping]

     My friend said, "It's not gonna go wrong. It's not that easy [to go wrong]. There are so many people in the world, and I don't see you dying."

   • ?????friend????????????? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ?????friend????????????? [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2015, Playboy ? (pseudonym), ???????, issue 18, page 69

     wai², mat¹ nei⁵ baan¹ fen¹ gam² tek³ bo¹ ge², hai⁶ mai⁶ jau⁵ di¹ m⁴ deoi³ lou⁶? [Jyutping]

     Hey, how come your friends play soccer like this. Is there some problem?

   • ??friend??????????????????????????????? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ??friend??????????????????????????????? [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2016, ???, ?????D?, page 101

     ngo⁵ go³ fen¹ giu³ ngo⁵ heoi³ keoi⁵ uk¹ kei^5-2 co⁵ haa⁵, daan⁶ jau⁶ m⁴ waa⁶ ngo⁵ zi¹ keoi⁵ neoi⁵ jau⁵ hai² dou⁶, gaau² dou³ ngo⁵ bin³ zo² zou⁶ din⁶ dang¹ daam². [Jyutping]

     When my friend invited me to hang out at his house but he didn't tell me that his girlfriend would be there too, he made me a third wheel.

Synonyms

• ?? (péngyou)

Adjective

friend

1. (Cantonese) in a close or friendly relationship

   ???friend?? [Cantonese]  ?  ngo⁵ dei⁶ hou² fen¹ gaa³. [Jyutping]  ?  We are really close.

   • ???????friend? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ???????friend? [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 1985, ???, ??????

     sat⁶ hang⁴ jung⁶ gaa³ man^4-2 gan¹ keoi⁵ fen¹ haa² [Jyutping]

     Used a bit of Japanese to try and make friends with her

   • ??????????friend??????? [Cantonese, trad.]
     “?????????friend??????” [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2011, TVB-J2, K-ON?????? (K-On!!), season 2, episode 1

     “jan¹ wai⁴ nei⁵ dei⁶ ng⁵ go³ hou² ci⁵ hou² fen¹ hou² hoi¹ sam¹ gam² wo³.” [Jyutping]

     “It's because you five seem so close and happy.”

   • ????????????????friend?? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ????????????????friend?? [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2013, ??? (Dung Kai-cheung), ????????????????, page 124

     ngo⁵ giu³ ou³ gu², wo⁴ taa¹ sik¹ liu⁵ han² do¹ nin⁴, syun³ hai⁶ hou² fen¹ haa⁵. [Jyutping]

     My name is Ou Gu. I knew her for many years, so we are pretty close.

   • ????????????Friend????????????Friend??????????????????? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ????????????Friend????????????Friend??????????????????? [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2015, ??? (pseudonym), ????????????, page 243

     ngo⁵ m⁴ soeng² ngo⁵ dei⁶ zi² hai⁶ hai² ni¹ dyun⁶ si⁴ gaan³ fen¹ faan¹, ngo⁵ soeng² ngo⁵ dei⁶ bin³ faan¹ ji⁵ cin⁴ gam², fen¹ dou³ mat¹ dou¹ king¹, ping⁴ si⁴ daai⁶ gaa¹ jau⁵ di¹ me¹ dou¹ wui⁵ wan² daai⁶ gaa¹ gong². [Jyutping]

     I don't want us to just be close for this while. I want us to turn back into how we were before, when we were so close that we would chat about anything, when we would normally look for each other to talk if anything happens.

   • ??????????????friend???????????????????????????????????? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ??????????????friend???????????????????????????????????? [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2016, ???, (Q Bobo), ??????, page 32

     bat¹ gwo³ ci² zung¹ daai⁶ gaa¹ dou¹ hai⁶ sai³ lou⁶, hou² faai³ zau⁶ fen¹ zo², ngo⁵ go³ jan⁴ hou² ji⁶ soeng¹ cyu², tung⁴ hoeng¹ gong² jan⁴, jan³ dou⁶ jan⁴ dou¹ soeng¹ cyu² dou^3-2, so² ji⁵ kei⁴ sat⁶ duk⁶ me¹ hok⁶ haau⁶ dou¹ mou⁵ man⁶ tai⁴. [Jyutping]

     But since everyone is a kid, we quickly became close. I easily get along with others, no matter if it's with Hong Kongers or Indians, so it doesn't matter which school I go to.

References

• English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

Middle English

Noun

friend

1. Alternative form of frend

Spanish

Etymology

From English friend.

Noun

friend m (plural friends)

1. (climbing) cam