n.
1.a person you know well and regard with affection and trust
2.an associate who provides assistance
3.a person with whom you are acquainted
4.a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
5.a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
Idiom of the Day
used to
formerly did something, had the habit of doing something
We used to live in a house but now we live in an apartment.