An associate who provides assistance; patron, mentor.
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A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.
"[…]if you have any wish to speak openly to me as a friend, or to ask my opinion of any thing that you may have in contemplation—as a friend, indeed, you may command me.—I will hear whatever you like. I will tell you exactly what I think…
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A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted.
1917, Richard M. Gummere translating Seneca as Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Loeb Classical Library, Vol. I, No. 3:
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