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
fall in with (a group of people)
to become associated with a group of people (usually used when you fall in with a bad group of people)
The boy fell in with a bad group of friends and began to have problems at school.