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‣ Function: adjective
‣ Meanings:
(1) shared between two or more people or groups
-Mutual love and respect was the key to their successful marriage.
-The partnership was based on mutual admiration and understanding.
※If a feeling is mutual, then two people or groups feel the same way about each other.
Her fans love her, and the feeling is mutual.
[=and she loves her fans]
Their attraction was mutual.
[=they were both attracted to each other]>
"I'm pleased to meet you."
"The feeling is mutual!"
[=I’m also pleased to meet you]>
(2) always used before a noun : shared by two or more people or groups
-They met through a mutual friend.
[=a person who was a friend of both of them]
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