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friendship

noun
/ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp/

Etymology

From Middle English frendshipe, from Old English frēondsċiepe, from Proto-West Germanic *friundskapi. Equivalent to friend + -ship.

  1. inherited from *friundskapi✻
  2. inherited from frēondsċiepe
  3. inherited from frendshipe

Definitions

  1. The condition of being friends.

    • But (as the Poet ſaith) Malè ſarta gratia, nequicquam coit, & reſcinditur: Friendſhip, that is but euill peeced, will not ioine cloſe, but falleth aſunder againe:
    • We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.
    • Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

  2. A friendly relationship, or a relationship as friends.

    • In good times and bad, in sickness and health, the benefits of friendships between women are physically and psychologically undeniable.

  3. Good will.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

    2. A town in Coronie District, Suriname.

The neighborhood

Derived

affectionate friendship, Amish friendship bread, cyberfriendship, friendship bench, friendship book, friendship bracelet, friendship centre, friendshipful, friendshipless, friendshiplike, friendshiply, friendshipped, friendshipper, friendshipping, friendshippish, friendshipish, friendship plant, friendshippy, friendshipy, friendship store, Friendship Village Resources, guest-friendship, guestfriendship, romantic friendship, unfriendship, Friendship sloop

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at friendship. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at friendship. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at friendship

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA