- friendship
- nounADJECTIVE▪ deep, firm, good, great, strong▪
Their quarrel meant the end of a beautiful friendship.
▪They formed a close friendship at college.
▪ close, intimate▪ beautiful, warm▪ real, true▪ innocent, platonic▪Their affair had started out as an innocent friendship.
▪ eternal, lasting, lifelong, long, long-standing▪They made vows of eternal friendship to each other.
▪It was a period of her life when she made some lifelong friendships.
▪ new, old▪ personalVERB + FRIENDSHIP▪ build, develop, establish, forge, form, make, start up, strike up▪He finds it difficult to make lasting friendships.
▪Jo struck up a friendship with a girl in her class.
▪ maintain▪ cement▪We cemented our friendship with a beer.
▪ cultivate▪He's trying to cultivate his friendship with the Edwards family.
▪ promote▪The aim of the festival is to promote friendship between the two countries.
▪ rekindle, renew▪It will be a pleasure to renew our friendship.
▪ destroy, ruin, spoil, wreck▪How can you let such a silly incident ruin your friendship?
▪ end▪ lose▪ risk▪ betray▪He betrayed our friendship by revealing my secret to his cousin.
▪ valueFRIENDSHIP + VERB▪ develop, grow▪Friendships need time to develop.
▪ begin, start▪ endPREPOSITION▪ friendship between▪He was jealous of the friendship between his wife and daughters.
▪ friendship with▪Her mother did not approve of her friendship with Ahmed.
PHRASES▪ bonds of friendship, ties of friendship▪The ties of friendship between us will never be broken.
▪ the hand of friendship▪He extended the hand of friendship towards/toward his former enemy.
▪ a gesture of friendship▪In a gesture of friendship she invited them to her wedding.
▪ an offer of friendship▪She offended them by turning down their offer of friendship.
▪ a spirit of friendship▪We hope the spirit of friendship between our countries will remain.
▪ a token of your friendship▪Please accept this gift as a token of our friendship.
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
