best friend

[ best-frend ]

/ ˈbɛst ˈfrɛnd /

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noun

a person’s closest or most cherished friend: Sheila has been my best friend since we were seven.

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.

OTHER WORDS FOR best friend

1 bestie, bf, bff, bosom buddy, bosom friend.

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Origin of best friend

First recorded before 1000

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How to use best friend in a sentence

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Her style, much like her diminutive nickname, is best described as “Hamptons twee”—preppy and peppy.
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In an email exchange a friend said many had repeated this same succinct review but they could never elaborate.
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Perhaps on his own nowadays, Epstein is trying his best to webmaster over a dozen URLs.
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We resolved to do our best to merit the good opinion which we thus supposed them to entertain of us.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.
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The blood that accused his friend in his heart, rushed to his face, when he repeated what had been told him.
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He is perplexed and hindered by the lack of soldiers, but is doing his best with his small forces.
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It is then we make him our friend, which sets us above the envy and contempt of wicked men.
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