the state of being a friend; association as friends: to value a person's friendship.
a friendly relation or intimacy.
friendly feeling or disposition.
Origin of friendship
before 900; Middle English; Old English frēondscipe.See friend, -ship
SYNONYMS FOR friendship
2 harmony, accord, understanding, rapport.
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OTHER WORDS FROM friendship
pre·friend·ship,noun
Words nearby friendship
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I would hope that liberals and conservatives can agree to disagree and be friendly with one another, and we don’t have our political beliefs be the litmus test for friendship.
Full Transcript: Tomi Lahren on ‘The Carlos Watson Show’|Daniel Malloy|August 31, 2020|Ozy
In fifth grade, we had a massive friendship bracelet phase, making every single type in our instruction book—from the basic row and chevron patterns to the most complicated tiki statue design.
In each episode, they take turns asking each other questions, with conversations ranging from friendship and parenting to immortality and whether dogs are better than people.
Introducing No Stupid Questions|No Stupid Questions|April 27, 2020|Freakonomics
We all know — or at least think we know — something about love and memory, and friendships and dreams and things like that.
Their friendship began when Krauss, who was chairman of the physics department at Case Western in Cleveland, sought out Epstein.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
There are moments of humor even, and friendship and love, and there are moments of religion, or lack of religion.
‘Walking Dead’ Showrunner Scott Gimple Teases ‘Darker, Weirder’ Times Ahead|Melissa Leon|December 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With Mac and Jesse we wanted to establish a friendship that was mostly a product of their common situation and enclosed world.
Nitehawk Shorts Festival: ‘Brute,’ a Twisted Take on Playing in the Dark|Julia Grinberg|November 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Friendship is the trump card in the movement for equality, not etiology.
The Problematic Hunt for a ‘Gay Gene’|Samantha Allen|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Love poems between aristocratic women were not uncommon at the time, as long as they stayed safely on the side of friendship.
Sor Juana: Mexico’s Most Erotic Poet and Its Most Dangerous Nun|Katie Baker|November 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was during this period of her life that she won a friendship quite as strong and quite as precious as that of old Grossetete.
The Village Rector|Honore de Balzac
It would be all the easier to pave the way towards a friendship between Philip and him, by-and-by.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 695|Various
It was a friendship that would have meant much to Douglas, even if it had not led to an interesting romance.
Stephen A. Douglas|Allen Johnson
The second shows what the friendship of the teacher and the children could do for it.
Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets|Various
This acquaintance ripened into a friendship of the purest stamp.
Christopher Carson|John S. C. Abbott
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