Friendhood
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The state, quality, or condition of being a friend or friends. uncountable, usually
"This is fully and quickly intelligible, but what it says is that the process of turning out to be a friend began, not with a set of properties that inconclusively indicated friendhood, but with a set that in fact inconclusively indicated unfriendliness."
- 2 A society or band of friends. uncountable, usually
"This reform was a most drastic one, carried out with genial simplicity: his Friendhoods of warriors were commanded to go everywhere and to see that the population of the land should be assembled in each district, driven into the rivers, [...]"
Synonyms
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More examples"This is fully and quickly intelligible, but what it says is that the process of turning out to be a friend began, not with a set of properties that inconclusively indicated friendhood, but with a set that in fact inconclusively indicated unfriendliness."
Etymology
From friend + -hood.
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