friendships
- 1Plural of friendship.
Several lasting friendships grew out of their time working together overseas.
Online communities can foster genuine friendships across great distances.
Note
Only one meaning of friendship survives the move to the plural: the countable one, a particular relationship between particular people. The condition of being friends and the sense of good will are uncountable, so they have no plural. Several friendships therefore means several separate bonds, never several amounts of good will. To speak of the feeling itself, keep the singular: a hand offered in friendship.
friendships is a form of friendship
friendship, noun: A relationship between people who like, trust, and care about each other as friends. Full entry
- Forms
- friendshipfriendships plural
- Spelling
- friendship → friendships: add -s
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