Associate, Colleague, Mates, Aquaintance
The Yiddish term for friend is "פֿרייַנד" (friend).
If you don't like them, they are not really a friend are they? Acquaintance would be a polite term.
By definition, you can have at most one best friend. The term best means better than any other. You can have lots of good friends, however. Stop calling your friends best friends, and call them good friends. Then they don't have to compete with each other to find out who is really the best friend.
The meaning of the term "a friend of a friend" is a person who is friends with one of your friends. e.g. Bob and Mary are friends. Mary and Fred are friends. Bob and Fred are not friends. To Bob, Fred would be a friend of a friend, because they are both friends with Mary.
"Amicus vos."
A friend..
The term 'recipients' means the person or thing that receives, such as in a letter or prize. For example, if you mail a letter to your friend, your friend is the recipient.
He likes his other friend.
It depends on what the other friend did to the friend.
The most commonly used Chinese term for friend is 朋友.
peers??
Comme un ami