BUDDY meaning: Friend who supports and accompanies

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word buddy:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

buddy: Merriam-Webster
buddy, buddy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
buddy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
buddy: Collins English Dictionary
buddy: Vocabulary.com
Buddy, buddy: Wordnik
buddy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Buddy, buddy: Wiktionary
buddy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
buddy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
buddy: Infoplease Dictionary
buddy: Dictionary.com
buddy: Online Etymology Dictionary
buddy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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buddy: Rhymezone
buddy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
buddy: FreeDictionary.org
buddy: Mnemonic Dictionary
Buddy: The Word Detective
buddy: TheFreeDictionary.com
buddy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
buddy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

buddy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

baby names list (No longer online)
A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
buddy: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
buddy: Colloquial Speech of Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada

Sports (1 matching dictionary)

Buddy: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A friend or casual acquaintance.
▸ noun:  A partner for a particular activity.
▸ noun:  An informal and friendly address to a stranger, usually male; a friendly (or occasionally antagonistic) placeholder name for a person one does not know.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To assign a buddy, or partner, to.
▸ adjective:  Resembling a bud.
▸ noun:  A male nickname.
▸ noun:  (rare, chiefly US) A male given name from English.
▸ noun:  A given name for a dog.

Similar:

pal, crony, chum, brother, sidekick, goodbuddy, amigo, cut buddy, friend, comrade, more...

Opposite:

foe, enemy, antagonist

Types:

loyal, funny, helpful, kind, adventurous, thoughtful, trustworthy, generous, compassionate, more...

Phrases:

buddy system, Buddy Holly, good buddy, buddy list, Buddy Rich, more...

Adjectives:

old, good, little, ole, high, big, close, former, real, right, sorry

Colors:

blue, green, yellow, orange, red, more...