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Definition: Best Friend |
Best FriendNoun1. The one friend who is closest to you. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Friend | Phrase: amici probantur rebus adversis; ohne bruder kann man leben nicht ohne Freund; " best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness "; conocidos muchos amigos pocos; " friend more divine than all divinities "; vida sin amigo muerte sin testigo. |
Noun: friend, friend of one's bosom; alter ego; best friend, bosom friend, soulmate, fast friend; amicus; usque ad aras; fidus Achates; persona grata. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Best Friend |
| English words defined with "best friend": friend. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "best friend": DREAMER ♦ Marrow/Ma ♦ Pocketbook, PROCRASTINATOR ♦ saw. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You're my best friend. (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry) My mother always said she was the kind of person who was her daughter's best friend. So, I thought, great! (The Opposite of Sex; writing credit: Don Roos.) I'm your best friend. What's more important than that, huh? (Big; writing credit: Gary Ross; Anne Spielberg) I guess nobody really knew Harry like he did like I did. He was the best friend I ever had. (The Third Man; writing credit: Graham Greene; Alexander Korda) Andy's a real special kid, and to him, you're his buddy, his best friend, and when Andy plays with you it's like even though you're not moving, you feel like you're alive, because that's how he sees you. (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter) | |
Lyrics | Turn his back on his best friend ("When a Man Loves a Woman"; performing artist: Percy Sledge) | |
Clever | Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. (references; author: Groucho Marx) My best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Dog's Best Friend (1960) My Wife's Best Friend (1952) Man's Best Friend (1952) A Man's Best Friend (1916) Man's Best Friend (1914) | |
Song Titles | My Best Friend (performing artist: Jefferson Airplane) My Best Friend (performing artist: Tim McGraw) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Man's best friend --.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The "best friend," the first locomotive built in the United States for actual service on a railroad.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Portrait of Carol Channing, "Diamonds are a girl's best friend".Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship. |
George Eliot | Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! |
Oscar Wilde | He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Quaid | Very similar, I got to say. My son's my best friend. And that's what I brought to the party. Jim is that way, too. The guy I play. He's that kind of dad. Then they also had the relationship between him and his own father, which is not so great. |
John Kerry | Some of them to my best friends, literally my best friend at college, a couple of my best friends in Vietnam, and high school friends. They're there. And I go down and visit. I think we all do. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Expression using "best friend": very best friend. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "best friend"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | καλύτερη φίλη, καλύτερη φίλ, καλύτερος φίλος, κολλητός (buddy, close, glued, tight-fitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | a kutya a legjobb barátunk (the dog is our best friend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estbay iendfray melhor amigo. (various references) mejor amigo (special friend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-f-i-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: befriends, interbeds. | |
-2 letters: befriend, benefits, bestride, bistered, briefest, debriefs, definers, ferniest, inbreeds, infested, infester, inserted, interbed, nerdiest, resident, resifted, sintered, trendies. | |
-3 letters: befrets, benders, benefit, bestrid, betides, binders, bistred, briefed, debrief, defiers, definer, defines, deniers, derbies, destine, diester, dieters, endites, entires, entries, feinted, fenders, fibered, finders, friends, frisbee, inbreds, inbreed, nereids, rebinds, redfins. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-f-i-n-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: defibrinates. | |
+5 letters: featherbeddings, fibrinopeptides, refundabilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 73 74 46 72 69 65 6E 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01110011 01110100 00100000 01000110 01110010 01101001 01100101 01101110 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e s t   F r i e n d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0073 0074 0046 0072 0069 0065 006E 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367185862408475718070 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Spoken | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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