Word.ws English Dictionary

friendzone

friendzone is the alternative form of friend zone.

Meaning of friend zone

Noun

friend zone (plural friend zones)

  1. (slang) The situation in which one is viewed by a potential partner as a platonic friend, which complicates the initiation of a romantic relationship.
    • Every platonic friend I got is some woman I was tryin' to fuck, I made a wrong turn somewhere, and ended up in the friend zone.1996, Chris Rock: Bring the Pain, Chris Rock (actor)

See all 2 meanings of friend zone

Forms of friendzone

Noun
pluralfriendzones
Verb
third-person singular presentfriendzones
present participlefriendzoning
past participlefriendzoned
pastfriendzoned

Words formed from friendzone

Questions about friendzone

What is friendzone the alternative form of?
Friendzone is the alternative form of friend zone.

Words near friendzone in the dictionary

  1. Friendsville
  2. Friendswood
  3. Friendsy
  4. friendworthy
  5. friendy
  6. friendzone
  7. friendzoned
  8. friendzoner
  9. friendzoners
  10. friendzones
  11. friendzoning

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: friendzone (page history and authors); friend zone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “friendzone.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/friendzone. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.