public Friend

English

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

public Friend^¹

Where it comes from

Friend denoted a member of the Society of Friends i.e. a Quaker.

noun public Friends · Public Friend

A Quaker authorized to travel between meetings and communities to preach; a Quaker preacher (in the 18th and 19th centuries). Thomas Story [1670?–1742], a public Friend and the Recorder of the city, has also spoken of this calamity [an excessively hot summer in 1699] in his Journal, as being a scourge which carried off from six to eight of the inhabitants daily, [...in total] about 220, of whom about 80 to 90 were of the S

Public Friend^²

noun Public Friends

Alternative letter-case form of public Friend

Talk about this word

Cite this

MLA

"public Friend." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/public%20friend. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

public Friend. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/public%20friend

Chicago

"public Friend." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/public%20friend.

BibTeX

@misc{public_friend_2026,
  title = {public Friend},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/public%20friend},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}