Friendship and Like

Friendship

Friendship noun - Kindly concern, interest, or support.

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Like and friendship are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Like" instead a noun "Friendship".

Nearby Words: friendly, friend, friendliness

Like noun - A number of persons or things that are grouped together because they have something in common.

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Friendship and like are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Friendship" instead a noun "Like".

Nearby Words: likely, likeness, liking, liked, likeable

human	human friendship	human like
old	old friendship	old like
good	good friendship	good like
special	special friendship	special like
Other adjectives: similar, normal, regular, simple, actual, entire, real, little, lost, beautiful, personal, new, past, broken.

Birds of a Feather: The marriages of all three of the Bennet sisters work like this; a running Jane Austen theme is that love is a combination of esteem, friendship and like-mindedness.

Source: Literature / Pride and Prejudice
Wife Husbandry: Gin meets Hotaru when she is a child and (given their physical age difference) they have a relationship that's somewhere between friendship and Like Brother and Sister, but as Hotaru grows up and the gap between them lessens, they eventually fall in love with each other.

Source: Manga / Hotarubi No Mori E
Like Woody, he also becomes a leader of a "family" of toys, only kept in line through threats and bullying instead of friendship and love.

Source: Western Animation / Toy Story 3

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