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As a proper noun friends

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As a noun friends

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As an initialism foe is

friends of the earth.

friends

English

Noun

(head)
  • Participants in a two-way friendship relationship.
  • I tried to be a friend to Jane but we never ''really'' made friends . She was never a friend to me.
    Jane and I made friends right away.
    We became''' friends in the war and remain ' friends to this day.
    We were friends''' with some girls from the other school and stayed '''friends with them.

    Usage notes

    * We usually make a friend'', or ''make friends with someone. See

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    foe

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) fo 'foe; hostile', from earlier ifo 'foe', from (etyl) 'to hate, be hostile' (compare Middle Irish oech 'enemy, fiend', Latin piget 'he is annoying', Lithuanian piktas ‘evil’, Albanian pis ‘dirty, scoundrel’).

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Hostile.
  • *, vol.1, ch.23:
  • he, I say, could passe into Affrike onely with two simple ships or small barkes, to commit himselfe in a strange and foe countrie, to engage his person, under the power of a barbarous King.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An enemy.
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    Synonyms
    * (enemy) adversary, enemy, opponent
    Antonyms
    * (enemy) ally, friend

    Etymology 2

    An acronym of "fifty-one ergs", coined by Gerald Brown of Stony Brook University in his work with Hans Bethe.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A unit of energy equal to 1044 joules.
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