friendship

Roget category 888

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.3. Sympathetic affections
›› 6.3.1. Social affections

#888. Friendship

noun

friendship, amity — friendliness etc. adj. — brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity — harmony etc. (concord) 714 — peace etc. 721.
firm friendship, staunch friendship, intimate friendship, familiar friendship, bosom friendship, cordial friendship, tried friendship, devoted friendship, lasting friendship, fast friendship, sincere friendship, warm friendship, ardent friendship.
cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale [Fr.], good understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response, welcomeness.
affection etc. (love) 897 — favoritism — good will etc. (benevolence) 906.
acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship, knowledge of — introduction.

verb

be friendly etc. adj., be friends etc. 890, be acquainted with etc. adj. — know — have the ear of — keep company with etc. (sociality) 892 — hold communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with — have a leaning to — bear good will etc. (benevolent) 906 — love etc. 897 — make much of — befriend etc. (aid) 707 — introduce to.
set one's horses together — have the latchstring out [U.S.] — hold out the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship, hold out the right hand of fellowship — become friendly etc. adj. — make friends with etc. 890 — break the lee, be introduced to — make acquaintance with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with — get into favor, gain the friendship of.
shake hands with, fraternize, embrace — receive with open arms, throw oneself into the arms of — meet halfway, take in good part.

adjective

friendly — amicable, amical^† — well-affected, unhostile^†, neighborly, brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial, warm-hearted.
friends with, well with, at home with, hand in hand with — on good terms, on friendly terms, on amicable terms, on cordial terms, on familiar terms, on intimate terms, on good footing — on speaking terms, on visiting terms — in one's good graces, in one's good books.
acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow well met, free and easy — welcome.

adverb

amicably etc. adj. — with open arms — sans ceremonie [Fr.] — arm in arm.

phrase

amicitia semper prodest [Lat.] [Seneca]; a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one" [Carlyle]; friendship is love without either flowers or friendship is love without either flowers or veil" [Hare]; trulgus amicitias utilitate probat [Lat.] [Ovid].

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