(friendships)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A friendship is a relationship between two or more friends.
She struck up a close friendship with Desiree during the week of rehearsals...
After seven years of friendship, she still couldn't tell when he was kidding.
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2.
You use friendship to refer in a general way to the state of being friends, or the feelings that friends have for each other.
...a hobby which led to a whole new world of friendship and adventure.
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3.
Friendship is a relationship between two countries in which they help and support each other.
The President set the targets for the future to promote friendship with East Europe...
= goodwill
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