intimate /inˈti-mit or -māt/

1. Innermost
2. Internal
3. Close
4. Deep-seated
5. Private
6. Personal
7. Closely acquainted
8. Familiar
9. In a sexual relationship
10. Engaging in sex
11. Encouraging informality and closer personal relations through smallness, exclusiveness

A close friend

1. To hint
2. To announce

• holdovers
• hold pace with
• hold play
• holds
• hold someone in hand
• hold sway
• hold sway over
• hold the belt
• hold the field
• hold the floor
• hold the fort
• hold the line
• hold the ring
• hold the road
• hold to
• hold to account
• hold together
• hold to ransom
• hold up
• hold-up
• hold up one's head
• hold-ups
• hold water
• hold with
• hold with the hare and run with the hounds