Definition of "friends" []

• Plural form of friend. (noun)
• Participants in a two-way friendship relationship. (noun)

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• "One person\'s happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only his friends, but his friends\ 'friends, and his friends\' friends\ 'friends."
• "I often think if mothers could be friends to their children, _real friends_, I mean, and not claim what no human being has"
• "“Kind friends, ” he said, “friends I have known so long, 1790"