All friend synonyms

noun friend

• colleague — Your colleagues are the people you work with, especially in a professional job.
• acquaintance — An acquaintance is someone who you have met and know slightly, but not well.
• buddy — A buddy is a close friend, usually a male friend of a man.
• associate — If you associate someone or something with another thing, the two are connected in your mind.
• companion — A companion is someone who you spend time with or who you are travelling with.
• roommate — a person who is assigned to share or shares a room or apartment with another or others.
• partner — a person who shares or is associated with another in some action or endeavor; sharer; associate.
• cousin — Your cousin is the child of your uncle or aunt.
• ally — A country's ally is another country that has an agreement to support it, especially in war.
• classmate — Your classmates are students who are in the same class as you at school or college.
• patron — (in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a boss; employer.
• advocate — If you advocate a particular action or plan, you recommend it publicly.
• backer — A backer is someone who helps or supports a project, organization, or person, often by giving or lending money.
• supporter — a person or thing that supports.
• crony — You can refer to friends that someone spends a lot of time with as their cronies, especially when you disapprove of them.
• cohort — A person's cohorts are their friends, supporters, or associates.
• comrade — Your comrades are your friends, especially friends that you share a difficult or dangerous situation with.
• chum — Your chum is your friend.
• intimate — associated in close personal relations: an intimate friend.
• familiar — well-acquainted; thoroughly conversant: to be familiar with a subject.
• sidekick — a close friend.
• compatriot — Your compatriots are people from your own country.
• mate — a tealike South American beverage made from the dried leaves of an evergreen tree.
• spare — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
• schoolmate — a companion or associate at school.
• pal — a special air service offered by the U.S. Postal Service for sending parcels from 5 to 30 pounds (2.3 to 13.5 kg) to overseas servicemen: only the regular parcel post rate to the U.S. port of shipment plus $1 is charged. Compare SAM (def 2).
• consort — If you say that someone consorts with a particular person or group, you mean that they spend a lot of time with them, and usually that you do not think this is a good thing.
• playmate — a companion, especially of a child, in play or recreation.
• well-wisher — a person who wishes well to another person, a cause, etc.
• partisan — a shafted weapon of the 16th and 17th centuries, having as a head a long spear blade with a pair of curved lobes at the base.
• adherent — An adherent is someone who holds a particular belief or supports a particular person or group.
• accomplice — Someone's accomplice is a person who helps them to commit a crime.
• alter ego — Your alter ego is the other side of your personality from the one which people normally see.
• soul mate — a person with whom one has a strong affinity, shared values and tastes, and often a romantic bond: I married my soul mate; you don't get much luckier than that.
• bosom buddy — close friend
• confidant — Someone's confidant is a man who they are able to discuss their private problems with.
• contact — Contact involves meeting or communicating with someone, especially regularly.
• workmate — A person with whom one works.
• helper — a person or thing that helps or gives assistance, support, etc.
• collaborator — A collaborator is someone that you work with to produce a piece of work, especially a book or some research.
• benefactor — A benefactor is a person who helps a person or organization by giving them money.