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#888. Friendship.-- N. friendship

• amity

• friendliness

• brotherhood

• fraternity

• sodality

• confraternity

• harmony

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• peace

• firm friendship

• staunch friendship

• intimate friendship

• familiar

• friendship

• bosom friendship

• cordial friendship

• tried friendship

• devoted

• friendship

• lasting friendship

• fast friendship

• sincere friendship

• warm

• friendship

• ardent friendship

• cordiality

• fraternization

• good understanding

• rapprochement

• sympathy

• fellow-feeling

• response

• welcomeness

• affection

• favoritism

• good will

• acquaintance

• familiarity

• intimacy

• intercourse

• fellowship

• knowledge of

• introduction

• V. be friendly

• be friends

• be acquainted with

• know

• have the ear of

• keep company with

• hold

• communication with

• have dealings with

• sympathize with

• have a leaning to;

• bear good will

• love

• make much of

• befriend

• introduce to. set one's horses together

• have the

• latchstring out [U. S.]

• hold out the right hand of friendship

• extend the

• right hand of friendship

• hold out the right hand of fellowship

• become

• friendly

• make friends

• break the lee

• be introduced

• to

• make acquaintance with

• pick acquaintance with

• scrape acquaintance

• with

• get into favor

• gain the friendship of

• shake hands with

• fraternize

• embrace

• receive with open arms

• throw

• oneself into the arms of

• meet halfway

• take in good part

• Adj. friendly

• amicable

• well-affected

• neighborly

• brotherly

• fraternal

• sympathetic

• harmonious

• hearty

• cordial

• warm-hearted

• friends with

• well with

• at home with

• hand in hand with

• on good

• terms

• on friendly terms

• on amicable terms

• on cordial terms

• on

• familiar terms

• on intimate terms

• on good footing

• on speaking terms

• on

• visiting terms

• in one's good graces

• in one's good books

• acquainted

• familiar

• intimate

• thick

• hand and glove

• hail fellow

• well met

• free and easy

• welcome

• Adv. amicably

• with open arms

• arm in

• arm

• Phr. amicitia semper prodest [Lat][Seneca]

• "a mystic bond of

• brotherhood makes all men one" [Carlyle]

• "friendship is love without

• either flowers or veil" [Hare]

• trulgus amicitias utilitate probat

• [Lat][Ovid]

#889. Enmity.-- N. enmity

• hostility

• unfriendliness

• discord

• bitterness

• rancor

• alienation

• estrangement

• dislike

• hate

• animosity

• malevolence

• V. be inimical

• keep at arm's length

• hold at arm's length;

• be at loggerheads

• bear malice

• fall out

• take umbrage

• harden the heart

• alienate

• estrange

• [not friendly

• but not hostile see indifference 866]

• Adj. inimical

• unfriendly

• hostile

• at enmity

• at variance

• at daggers

• drawn,at open war with

• up in arms against

• in bad odor with

• on bad terms

• not on speaking terms

• cool

• cold

• cold hearted;

• estranged

• alienated

• disaffected

• irreconcilable

#890. Friend. -- N. friend

• friend of one's bosom

• alter ego

• best

• friend

• bosom friend

• soulmate

• fast friend

• amicus[Lat]

• usque ad

• aras[Lat]

• persona grata

• acquaintance

• neighbor

• next-door neighbor

• casual acquaintance

• nodding acquaintance

• wellwisher

• favorer

• patron

• Mecaenas

• tutelary saint

• good genius

• advocate

• partisan

• sympathizer

• ally

• friend in need

• comrade

• mate

• companion

• familiar

• confrere

• comrade

• confidante

• intimate

• old crony

• crony

• chum

• pal

• buddy

• bosom buddy;

• playfellow

• playmate

• childhood friend

• bedfellow

• bedmate

• chamber fellow

• associate

• colleague

• compeer

• schoolmate

• classmate

• roommate

• fellow-man

• stable companion

• best man

• maid of honor

• matron of honor

• compatriot

• fellow countryman

• countryman

• shopmate

• fellow-worker

• shipmate

• fellow companion

• boon companion

• pot companion

• copartner

• partner

• senior partner

• junior

• partner

• Nisus and

• Euryalus[Lat]

• Damon and Pythias

• par nobile fratrum[Lat]

• host

• Boniface

• guest

• visitor

• prot_g_

• Phr. amici probantur rebus adversis[Lat]

• ohne bruder kann man leben

• nicht ohne Freund[Ger]

• "best friend

• my well-spring in the wilderness"

• [G. Eliot]

• conocidos muchos amigos pocos[Sp]

• "friend more divine than

• all divinities" [G. Eliot]

• vida sin amigo muerte sin testigo[Sp]

#891. Enemy. -- N. enemy

• antagonist

• foe

• open enemy

• bitter enemy

• opponent

• back friend

• public enemy

• enemy to society

• Phr. every hand being against one

• "he makes no friend who never made

• a foe" [Tennyson]

• with friends like that

• who needs enemies?

• Lord protect me from my

• friends

• I can protect myself from my enemies

#892. Sociality. -- N. sociality

• sociability

• sociableness

• social intercourse

• intercourse

• companionship

• comradeship

• esprit de

• corps

• conviviality

• good fellowship

• good company

• joviality

• jollity

• festivity

• festive board

• merrymaking

• loving cup|!;

• hospitality

• heartiness

• cheer

• welcome

• welcomeness

• greeting

• hearty welcome

• hearty reception

• warm

• reception

• urbanity

• familiarity

• good fellow

• jolly fellow

• social circle

• family circle

• circle of acquaintance

• coterie

• society

• company. social gathering

• social reunion

• assembly

• (assemblage)

• barbecue [U. S.]

• bee

• corn-husking [U. S.]

• corn-shucking

• [U. S.]

• house raising

• barn raising

• husking

• husking-bee [U. S.];

• party

• entertainment

• reception

• levee

• at

• home

• conversazione[It]

• soiree

• matin_e

• evening party

• morning party

• afternoon party

• bridge

• party

• garden party

• surprise party

• kettle

• kettle drum

• partie

• dish of tea

• rout|!

• housewarming

• ball

• festival

• smoker

• smoker-party;sociable [U.S.]

• stag party

• hen party

• tamasha|!

• tea-party

• tea-fight*. (amusement) 840

• "the feast of reason

• and the flow of soul" [Pope]

• birthday party[parties for specific occasions]

• Christmas party

• New

• Year's Eve party

• Thanksgiving Day Dinner

• bonenkai[Japan]

• wedding

• reception

• visiting

• round of visits

• call

• morning call

• interview

• (conversation) 58

• assignation

• tryst

• trysting place

• appointment

• club

• V. be sociable

• know

• be acquainted

• associate with

• sort with

• keep company with

• walk hand in hand with

• eat off the same

• trencher

• club together

• consort

• bear one company

• join

• make acquaintance

• with

• make advances

• fraternize

• embrace

• be at home with

• feel at home with

• make oneself at home with

• make

• free with

• crack a bottle with

• receive hospitality

• live at free quarters;

• find the latchstring out [U.S.]. visit

• pay a visit

• interchange visits

• interchange cards

• call at

• call upon

• leave a card

• drop in

• look in;

• look one up

• beat up one's quarters

• entertain

• give a party

• be at home

• see one's friends

• hang

• out

• keep open house

• do the honors

• receive

• receive with open arms;

• welcome

• give a warm reception

• Adj. sociable

• companionable

• clubbable

• cosy

• chatty

• conversational

• homiletical

• convivial

• festive

• festal

• jovial

• jolly

• hospitable

• welcome

• welcome as the roses in May

• f_ted

• entertained

• free and easy

• hall fellow well met

• familiar

• on visiting terms

• acquainted

• social

• neighborly

• international

• gregarious

• in the family circle

• sans faon

• sans

• arm in arm

• Phr. "a crowd is not company" [Bacon]

• "be bright and jovial among

• your guests tonight" [Macbeth]

• "his worth is warrant for his welcome"

• [Two Gentlemen]

• "let's be red with mirth" [Winter's Tale]

• "welcome the

• coming speed the parting guest" [Pope]

#893. Seclusion. Exclusion. -- N. seclusion

• privacy

• retirement;

• reclusion

• recess

• snugness

• rustication

• rus

• in urbe[Lat]

• solitude

• solitariness

• isolation;

• loneliness

• estrangement from the world

• voluntary exile;

• aloofness

• cell

• hermitage

• convent

• sanctum sanctorum[Lat]

• depopulation

• desertion

• desolation

• wilderness

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• howling wilderness

• rotten borough

• Old Sarum

• exclusion

• excommunication

• banishment

• exile

• ostracism

• proscription

• cut

• cut direct

• dead cut

• inhospitableness

• domesticity

• Darby and Joan

• recluse

• hermit

• eremite

• cenobite

• anchorite

• Simon

• troglodyte

• solitaire

• disciple of Zimmermann

• closet cynic

• Diogenes

• outcast

• Pariah

• castaway

• wastrel

• foundling

• V. be secluded

• live secluded

• keep aloof

• stand

• hold

• oneself aloof

• keep in the background

• stand in the background

• keep snug;

• shut oneself up

• deny oneself

• seclude oneself creep into a corner

• rusticate

• retire

• retire from the world

• take

• the veil

• abandon

• sport one's oak*

• cut

• cut dead

• refuse to associate with

• refuse to acknowledge

• look

• cool upon

• turn one's back upon

• shut the door upon

• repel

• blackball

• excommunicate

• exclude

• exile

• expatriate

• banish

• outlaw

• maroon

• ostracize

• proscribe

• cut off from

• send to Coventry

• keep at arm's length

• draw a cordon round

• depopulate

• Adj. secluded

• sequestered

• retired

• private

• bye;

• out of the world

• out of the way

• "the world forgetting by the world

• forgot" [Pope]

• snug

• domestic

• stay-at-home

• unsociable

• unsocial

• inhospitable

• cynical

• inconversable|

• unclubbable

• troglodytic

• solitary

• lonely

• lonesome

• isolated

• single

• estranged

• unfrequented

• uninhabitable

• uninhabited

• tenantless;

• abandoned

• deserted

• deserted in one's utmost need

• friendless

• homeless

• forlorn

• desolate

• unvisited

• uninvited

• unwelcome

• under a cloud

• left to shift for oneself

• derelict

• outcast

• banished

• Phr. noli me tangere[Lat]

• "among them but not of them" [Byron]

• "and homeless near a thousand

• homes I stood" [Wordsworth]

• far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife

• [Gray]

• "makes a solitude and calls it peace" [Byron]

• magna civitas

• magna solitudo [Lat]

• "never less alone than when alone" [Rogers]

• "O

• sacred solitude! divine retreat!" [Young]