Lexic.us

Definition of Friendship

1. Noun. The state of being friends (or friendly).

Definition of Friendship

1. n. 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.

Definition of Friendship

1. Noun. The condition of being friends. ¹

2. Noun. A friendly relationship. ¹

3. Noun. Good will. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Friendship

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Friendship

Literary usage of Friendship

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1891)
"1 ' JrI friendship of kinsmen and that of comrades. ... The friendship of host and guest might also be included in this class. ..."

2. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1906)
"THE friendship GRANITE AREA. friendship is a station on the Wilkesboro and ... Three miles N. 25° E. from friendship, two openings about half a mile apart ..."

3. The Spectator by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1810)
"Breasts that with sympathizing ardour glow'd, And holy friendship, such as Theseus vow'd. I INTEND the paper for this day as a loose essay upon friendship, ..."

4. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1878)
"OF friendship. IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, Whosoever is delighted ..."

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