Synonyms for best friend
best friend

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1. best friendnoun

   Synonyms:
   best mate, best pal, boon companion, best bud, BFF, best buddy

   Antonyms:
   worst enemy

2. best friendnoun

   An especially close and trusted friend.

   Synonyms:
   best pal, best mate, best buddy, boon companion, best bud, BFF

   Antonyms:
   worst enemy

Princeton's WordNet

1. best friendnoun

   the one friend who is closest to you

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1. • Friend

Suggested Resources

1. best friend

   Read the full text of the Best Friend poem by Audrey newell on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Ron Davis:

   He was my best friend, my brother and my shadow, and when it was show time, it was amazing. He made millions and millions of people smile throughout the world, he was a little 60-pound (27.2 kg) butterball of inspiration for a lot of people.

2. The Times:

   Zucker may now have the chance to work for one of his closest pals in business and in life, a golf buddy and confidant who the CNN president once said was ‘the best friend that anyone could ever want, and I’m lucky that he’s mine,’.

3. Herman Boone:

   We thought it was a joke, but it ended up to be better for Alexandria than Brown vs. Board, we were as different as night and day. But he and I found a way to talk to each other and trust each other. In the end, he was the best friend I ever had.

4. Alexander Dudelson:

   I don't have any siblings, but I sometimes go a couple weeks without speaking to a best friend. A two-week span may not have been a big deal, especially when someone is incarcerated.

5. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

   The truth is we have different information, and now the best friend for enemies is panic in our country. And all this information that helps only for panic doesn’t help us.