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BEST FRIEND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The one friend who is closest to you
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("best friend" is a kind of...):
friend (a person you know well and regard with affection and trust)
Context examples:
No, Bessie: she came to my crib last night when you were gone down to supper, and said I need not disturb her in the morning, or my cousins either; and she told me to remember that she had always been my best friend, and to speak of her and be grateful to her accordingly.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"That is your best friend, of whom you speak?" he said in an altered tone.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
You, who have been the best friend I ever had in my life—Want gratitude to you!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
That is why I say that the murrain was the best friend that the borel folk ever had.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And then changing his tone again to one of gentle gallantry, and addressing Fanny, he said, You were Mr. Rushworth's best friend.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
“There is a good reason for that,” said I, “for Lord Avon was, as I have heard, your uncle’s best friend; and it is but natural that he would not wish to speak of his disgrace.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The vicious propensities—the want of principle, which he was careful to guard from the knowledge of his best friend, could not escape the observation of a young man of nearly the same age with himself, and who had opportunities of seeing him in unguarded moments, which Mr. Darcy could not have.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Something in Mr. Bhaer's face suddenly recalled the fact that she might find Laurie more than a 'best friend', and simply because she particularly wished not to look as if anything was the matter, she involuntarily began to blush, and the more she tried not to, the redder she grew.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
He's dead now. He used to be my best friend years ago.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
