brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, confraternity; harmony &c (concord)
714; peace &c 721.
firm friendship, staunch friendship, intimate friendship, familiar
friendship, bosom friendship, cordial friendship, tried friendship,
devoted friendship, lasting friendship, fast friendship, sincere
friendship, warm friendship, ardent friendship.
cordiality, fraternization, entente cordiale [Fr.], good
understanding, rapprochement, sympathy, fellow-feeling, response,
welcomeness.
affection &c (love) 897; favoritism; good will &c (benevolence)
906.
acquaintance, familiarity, intimacy, intercourse, fellowship,
knowledge of; introduction.
V. be friendly &c adj., be friends &c 890, be acquainted with &c adj.;
know; have the ear of; keep company with &c (sociality) 892; hold
communication with, have dealings with, sympathize with; have a leaning
to; bear good will &c (benevolent) 906; love &c 897; make much of;
befriend &c (aid) 707; introduce to.
set one's horses together; have the latchstring out [U.S.]; hold
out the right hand of friendship, extend the right hand of friendship,
hold out the right hand of fellowship; become friendly &c adj.; make
friends with &c 890; break the lee, be introduced to; make acquaintance
with, pick acquaintance with, scrape acquaintance with; get into favor,
gain the friendship of.
shake hands with, fraternize, embrace; receive with open arms,
throw oneself into the arms of; meet halfway, take in good part.
Adj. friendly; amicable, amical†; well-affected, unhostile†, neighborly,
brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial, warm-
hearted.
friends with, well with, at home with, hand in hand with; on good
terms, on friendly terms, on amicable terms, on cordial terms, on
familiar terms, on intimate terms, on good footing; on speaking terms,
on visiting terms; in one's good graces, in one's good books.
acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow
well met, free and easy; welcome.
Adv. amicably &c adj.; with open arms; sans ceremonie [Fr.]; arm in
arm.
Phr. amicitia semper prodest [Lat.] [Seneca]; a mystic bond of
brotherhood makes all men one [Carlyle]; friendship is love without
either flowers or veil [Hare]; trulgus amicitias utilitate probat
[Lat.] [Ovid].