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sympathizer collapse: someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful; commiserates with someone who has had misfortune

neighbor collapse: a nearby object of the same kind; "Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas"; "what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?"; a person who lives (or is located) near another; be located near or adjacent to; "Pakistan neighbors India"; live or be located as a neighbor; "the neighboring house"

alter ego collapse: a very close and trusted friend who seems almost a part of yourself

repository collapse: a burial vault (usually for some famous person); a person to whom a secret is entrusted

lover collapse: a person who loves or is loved; a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage

self-knowledge collapse: an understanding of yourself and your goals and abilities

familiarity collapse: an act of undue intimacy; close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"; usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known

supporter collapse: a person who backs a politician or a team etc.; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library"

partisan collapse: a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries; a fervent and even militant proponent of something; devoted to a cause or party

brother collapse: a male with the same parents as someone else; "my brother still lives with our parents"; (Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a monk and used as form of address; "a Benedictine Brother"; a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion of other group); "none of his brothers would betray him"; used as a term of address for those male persons engaged in the same movement; "Greetings, comrade!"

befriend collapse: become friends with; "John and Eric soon became friends"; "Have you made friends yet in your new environment?"

pickup collapse: the act of taking aboard passengers or freight; the act or process of picking up or collecting from various places; "garbage pickup is on Mondays and Thursdays"; a light truck with an open body and low sides and a tailboard; anything with restorative powers; "she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her"; the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his car has a lot of pickup"; a warrant to take someone into custody; "put out a pickup on that man"; a casual acquaintance; often made in hope of sexual relationships

friend collapse: a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers); a person you know well and regard with affection and trust; "he was my best friend at the university"

intimate collapse: marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity; "intimate friend"; "intimate relations between economics, politics, and legal principles" - V.L. Parrington; thoroughly acquainted through study or experience; "this girl, so intimate with nature"-W.H.Hudson; "knowledgeable about the technique of painting"- Herbert Read; involved in a sexual relationship; "the intimate (or sexual) relations between husband and wife"; "she had been intimate with many men"; give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife"

sidelight collapse: light carried by a boat that indicates the boat's direction; vessels at night carry a red light on the port bow and a green light on the starboard bow

handout collapse: giving money or food or clothing to a needy person; an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation

bulletin collapse: a brief report (especially an official statement issued for immediate publication or broadcast); make public by bulletin

familiar collapse: a spirit (usually in animal form) that acts as an assistant to a witch or wizard; a person attached to the household of a high official (as a pope or bishop) who renders service in return for support; having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship; "on familiar terms"; "pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders"; well known or easily recognized; "a familiar figure"; "familiar songs"; "familiar guests"; within normal everyday experience; common and ordinary; not strange; "familiar ordinary objects found in every home"; "a familiar everyday scene"; "a familiar excuse"; "a day like any other filled with familiar duties and experiences"

advocate collapse: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea; a lawyer who pleads cases in court

presentation collapse: a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view; "the presentation of new data"; "he gave the customer a demonstration"; the activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward); "she gave the trophy but he made the presentation"; (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; "Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations"; the act of making something publicly available; presenting news or other information by broadcasting or printing it; "he prepared his presentation carefully in advance"; the act of presenting a proposal; formally making a person known to another or to the public

introduction collapse: the act of beginning something new; "they looked forward to the debut of their new product line"; the first section of a communication; a basic or elementary instructional text; a new proposal; "they resisted the introduction of impractical alternatives"

blue book collapse: a blue booklet used in universities for writing examinations; a register of persons who are socially prominent; a report published by the British government; bound in blue

corpus collapse: the main part of an organ or other bodily structure; a collection of writings; "he edited the Hemingway corpus"

announcement collapse: a formal public statement; "the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war"; "a declaration of independence"; a public statement about something that is happening or going to happen; "the announcement appeared in the local newspaper"; "the promulgation was written in English"

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