WORDY WEDNESDAY: BEFRIEND
28 / 01 / 2015
WORDY WEDNESDAY: BEFRIEND: meaning and examples
Good morning and welcome to the Daily Vitamin's Wordy Wednesday!
Thanks to social media, UNFRIEND (which means "to stop being friends with someone" or "to remove someone as a friend on social media") is now a common word. Today we look at a verb with the opposite meaning: TO BEFRIEND.
Definition: to make someone your friend. (formal)
Example 1: Steven befriended me when I was a new student in the class.
Example 2: If you befriend someone, you will always be special to them.
Interestingly, befriend existed hundreds of years before we "invented" the opposite word, UNFRIEND.
If you are interested in learning about the word UNFRIEND, click on the link below to read an article about when the word was officially added to the English language in 2009.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/17/unfriend.word/
Thanks for reading! Have a great day!
Thanks to social media, UNFRIEND (which means "to stop being friends with someone" or "to remove someone as a friend on social media") is now a common word. Today we look at a verb with the opposite meaning: TO BEFRIEND.
Definition: to make someone your friend. (formal)
Example 1: Steven befriended me when I was a new student in the class.
Example 2: If you befriend someone, you will always be special to them.
Interestingly, befriend existed hundreds of years before we "invented" the opposite word, UNFRIEND.
If you are interested in learning about the word UNFRIEND, click on the link below to read an article about when the word was officially added to the English language in 2009.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/17/unfriend.word/
Thanks for reading! Have a great day!
