Friends and/or its singular, friend, may refer to:

• partners in Friendship, an interpersonal relationship between humans; also in such compounds as gentleman friend
• a title, expressing by the originally personal notion of friendship a proximity or confidence towards a high authority (ruler, judge..) which had been turned into a formal status, even a rank, rather then an emotional bond, as in such court ranks as a hellenistic (protos) philos basilikos or amicus curiae ('friend of the court')
• Friends, an American television sitcom
• Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers
• Spring loaded camming device, a piece of equipment used in climbing
• Friend (film), a 2001 South Korean film
• Friends (1971 film), a 1971 British film
• Friends (2001 film), a 2001 Indian Tamil film
• Friends (South Korean-Japanese series), a 2002 Korean-Japanese drama
• Friends (album), an album and song by The Beach Boys
• Friends (band), a Swedish sextet who represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest 2001
• Friends (Led Zeppelin song), a song from Led Zeppelin's album Led Zeppelin III
• Friends (magazine), a late 1960s radical magazine
• Friends (Michael W. Smith song), a contemporary Christian song by Michael W. Smith
• A system provided by the Steam service for Instant Messaging
• A private member who may directly accesss the class' protected data members and functions in the C++ programming language

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