acquaintance

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

a person you know well and like
friendWe've been friends for years.
buddyHe's one of my dad's old war buddies.
palThe heartthrob was spotted hanging with his Hollywood pals in L.A.
mateUKHe's out with his mates.
someone who provides friendly help to someone with an illness or a problem: 搭档，伙伴
We run a buddy system to support recovering alcoholics.我们建立了一个伙伴制，以帮助日渐康复的酗酒者。
someone who does an activity with you so that you can support and encourage each other: 搭档;伙伴
We became workout buddies.我们成了健身伙伴。
a study buddy学习伙伴
[ as form of address ]US(alsobud)
used when talking to a man, sometimes in a friendly way but often when you are annoyed: （用于称呼另一男士，尤用于表示不满时）老兄
Drink up and go home, buddy.老兄，喝完快回家吧。
[ as form of address ]US
used by an adult talking to a young boy in a friendly and kind way: （大人对小男孩的友好称呼）小伙子
Are you okay there, buddy?小伙子，你没事吧？

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Friends, acquaintances & contemporaries
acquaintance
acquaintanceship
acquainted
acquainted with someone
amigo
compatriot
comrade
contact list
contemporary
crony
crowd
fair-weather friend
fam
next door
non-contemporary
office spouse
on further acquaintance
oppo
wingman
with friends like you, who needs enemies?idiom

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People who help or serve people professionally
Helpers and accomplices

buddy | American Dictionary

buddy
noun[ C ]
 infmlus/ˈbʌd·i/
a close friend:
We were great buddies and did many things together.

Examples of buddy

buddy
The findings suggest that the team needs to offer better continuity of care and might act as a concierge, an advocate, or a buddy.
Once this elementary 'buddy group' is constructed, the intervening woman becomes at best irrelevant.
Among the staff focus groups, a theme emerged that the team should act like a buddy system or concierge.
Within the 24 plural full nouns, 66% (16) actually include the lexical items friends or buddies.
On the contrary, we must deconstruct the buddy group to show the male audience as a construction.
Buddy died in 1991, and the present of the film, twenty-three years after the initial adolescent romance, is contemporary, about 1996.
Secondly, there is the question of the differences that the analysis has established between the two voices in the buddy group, and the nature of the relationship between them.
To be able to find its 'buddy' closures, it is useful to have an auxiliary array pointing to them.
Berry's demonstration points up, as economically as anything, the limitations to 'solidarity', and the inadequacies of the 'buddy group' as a form for overcoming social divisions.
This representation of the 'buddy group' has continuities with other group, or dual representations of male identity, where mutual, male selves and desires are constructed around an imagined, comforting woman.
That buddy also acts as a mediator between him and other employees who may initially find his behaviour a little strange.
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