old friend

noun

: a person who has been one's friend for a long time

An old friend came to visit.

Examples of old friend in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

At last Chiefs-Jags won by a single vote as the panel repaired to the Quill & Swill Pub to mend frayed feelings with old friend Jim Beam. —Greg Cote october 2, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025

Benton sees thes signs as a reunion with an old friend, who won his state championships during her tenure as principal. —Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025

Starters such as Jordan Montgomery and Framber Valdez probably will have better suitors than Washington this winter, but could Toboni make a run at old friend Lucas Giolito, who pitched well for the Red Sox this year before an elbow injury knocked him out for the playoffs? —David Aldridge, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025

And then, one day, in November 2022, a man named Sam Altman, an old friend of Jensen’s, came out with ChatGPT, some six years after Jensen had hand-delivered Nvidia’s first AI supercomputer to OpenAI back in 2016. —Jim Cramer, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025

Rhymes for old friend

• amend
• append
• ascend
• attend
• backend
• befriend
• boyfriend
• commend
• compend
• contend
• defend
• depend