Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - friendship

(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. N-VAR 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. N-UNCOUNT 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 N-VAR