male friend

collocation in English

meaningsofmaleandfriend

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male
adjective
uk
/meɪl/us
/meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that fertilizes eggs, and does not produce babies or ...
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friend
noun[C]
uk
/frend/us
/frend/
a person who you know well and who you like a lot, but who is usually not a member of ...
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(Definition ofmaleandfriendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmale friend

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Widowed with children, she had amalefriendwho visited her daily and often took her out for the day.
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An element likely to strike the reader, though, is the fact that the man is accompanied by hismalefriendrather than by a woman.
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Have the suspect, his wife and hismalefriendbeen re-interviewed?
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Why was the suspect never charged, and did the alibi provided by the suspect's wife andmalefriendbear up under police examination?
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There are cases in which young women find themselves in court in serious circumstances because they have fallen victim to an influentialmalefriend.
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He wanted to replace her with amalefriendto whom he owed a political favor.
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The second fictive relationship is that of kloeu (closemalefriend).
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Her co-driver, a 26-year oldmalefriend, survived the accident.
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Men feel more sure of themselves with amalefriendthan a woman.
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In the 1970s, bro came to refer to amalefriendrather than just another man.
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Following her grandfather's death, amalefriendcame to live with her and became her first nice boyfriend.
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Then the bus driver allegedly tried to drive the bus over the woman, but she was pulled aside by hermalefriend.
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The film is about a woman who invites hermalefriendto stay at her family's island getaway after the death of his brother.
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Women were prohibited during lunch, so amalefriendmade a reservation and the three women went in to eat, unescorted.
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Despite her age, she refuses to believe that she is not a vital woman, and regularly practices the mambo with amalefriendof hers.
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Instead, she hears him fake a conversation with amalefriendso his wife won't overhear and realize who he's really talking to.
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Dee has a goodmalefriendwho she often spends time with and at one point hints that he may have romantic feelings for her.
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In quatrain 3, the speaker is trying to persuade hismalefriendto have children because he says that not doing so would be a waste of the mans beauty.
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