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friended

friended is the simple past and past participle of friend.

Meaning of friend

Verb

friend (third-person singular simple present friends, present participle friending, simple past and past participle friended)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.
    • Lo sluggish Knight the victors happie pray: / So fortune friends the bold [...].1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii
  2. (transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.
    • One of the most used features of MySpace is the practice that is nicknamed "friending." If you "friend" someone, then that person is added to your MySpace friends list, and you are added to their friends list.2006, Kevin Farnham, Dale G. Farnham, Myspace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens And Parents, How-To Primers, →ISBN, page 69
    Antonyms:
    defriend, unfriend

See all 19 meanings of friend

Adjective

friended (not comparable)

  1. Supplied with friends.

Questions about friended

What does friended mean?
Friended means supplied with friends.
What is friended the simple past and past participle of?
Friended is the simple past and past participle of friend.
What part of speech is friended?
Friended is an adjective.

Words near friended in the dictionary

  1. friend-zoning
  2. friendable
  3. friendboy
  4. friendboys
  5. friendcest
  6. friended
  7. friendess
  8. friendesses
  9. friendflation
  10. friendful
  11. friendgirl

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