friendship
//ˈfɹɛn(d)ʃɪp//
Forms
- Plural
- friendships
Definitions
1.The condition of being friends.
- 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.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3140
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From Middle English frendshipe, from Old English frēondsċiepe, from Proto-West Germanic *friundskapi.
Equivalent to friend + -ship.