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best friend

[ best frend ]

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noun

a person’s closest or most cherished friend:
Sheila has been my best friend since we were seven.
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something that a person particularly depends on or has a special affection for:
A purple, stuffed armadillo was my best friend and companion through my whole childhood.
something considered or suggested to be particularly useful or valuable:
When it comes to saving for retirement, compound interest is your new best friend.
Your local piano tuner could be your best friend when buying a piano.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of best friend¹

First recorded before 1000

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Around 1:15 p.m., she was on a three-way call with her mom and her best friend when they heard her cry, “Oh my God, he’s here.”

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Fellow Filipina-American Drag Race Star Manila Luzon said she was heartbroken to have lost her best friend of 25 years.

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At the start of the novel, it’s been five years since Lucy was found wandering the streets covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood shortly after she was murdered.

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In “Grief Is for People,” Crosley grieves the jewelry she loses in a burglary, until she is forced to also reckon with the loss of her best friend and mentor to suicide.

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"Just don't let it be your best friend that dies from methanol poisoning."

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