/ˈfrend.li/
Translation
Kind and nice to others; behaving like a friend.
Word origin
From Old English freondlic, meaning like a friend.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- freondlic
Examples
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Here "friendly" means kind and nice to other people.
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"Friendly" describes a warm and kind welcome.
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Here "friendly" means it is gentle and nice, not fierce.
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Grammar articles
(6)Emphasis in English: I do like it, my own, the very, and how to push back
English Greetings and Survival Phrases: Say Something Today
Quantifiers in English: some, any, much, many and more
Relative clauses in English: defining, non-defining and when to drop the pronoun
Word formation with prefixes: un-, in-, im-, dis-, re-, over-, under- and mis-
Word formation in English: how suffixes build word families and give away the part of speech
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