🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

amigos íntimos

Pronunciation / Transliteration: aˈmiɡus ˈĩtimums

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fast friends/ˈfæst ˌfrɛndz/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eles se tornaram amigos íntimos logo após começarem a trabalhar juntos."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    People who are closely attached to each other and have a strong, loyal, and enduring bond of friendship.

    "After spending the entire summer traveling together, the two travelers became fast friends."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'fast' in its older Middle English sense of 'firmly, securely, or tightly' (derived from Old English 'fæst') with 'friends', denoting individuals joined securely together. While 'fast' evolved primarily to mean rapid in modern contexts, the archaic sense of being tightly bound or loyal survives chiefly in this compound expression and in nautical terms like 'fastened'.

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