companion
nounverbcommon in dialogue
- //kəmˈpæn.jən//
A friend, acquaintance or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies
noun
- 1
A friend, acquaintance or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies
His dog has been his trusted companion for the last five years.
Heere are your Sonnes againe, and I muſt looſe / Two of the ſweet’ſt Companions in the World.
The krogan have had a love-hate relationship with varren for millennia, alternately fighting them for territory and embracing them as treasured companions.
For the most part, Hefner's female companions all adhered to the same mold: twentysomething, bosomy and blonde. "Well, I guess I know what I like," he once said when asked about his preferences.
- 2
datedA person employed to accompany or travel with another.
- 3
The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
- 4
The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
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A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
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figurativeA person, thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another person, thing or phenomenon.
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An appended source of media or information, designed to be used in conjunction with and to enhance the main material.
The companion guide gives an in-depth analysis of this particular translation.
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A celestial object that is associated with another.
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A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.
a companion of the Bath
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obsoleteA fellow; a rogue.
[L]et vs knog our praines together to be reuenge on this ſame ſcall ſcuruy-cogging-companion the Hoſt of the Garter.
Etymology
From Middle English companion, from Old French compaignon (“companion”) (modern French compagnon), from Late Latin compāniōn- (nominative singular compāniō, whence French copain), from com- + pānis (literally, with + bread), a word first attested in the Frankish Lex Salica as a calque of a Germanic word, probably Frankish *galaibo, *gahlaibō (“messmate”, literally “with-bread”), from Proto-Germanic *gahlaibô. Compare also Old High German galeipo (“messmate”) and Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰 (gahlaiba, “messmate”); and, for the semantics, compare Old Armenian ընկեր (ənker, “friend”, literally “messmate”). More at co-, loaf. Displaced native Old English ġefēra (literally “fellow traveler”). Compare company and mate.
verb
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obsoleteTo be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
we had better turn south quickly and compare the elements of education which formed , and of creation which companioned , Salvator .
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obsoleteTo qualify as a companion; to make equal.
Finde me to marrie me with Octauius Cæſar, and companion me with my Miſtris.
Forms
- plural
- companions
- past tense
- companioned
- past participle
- companioned
- present participle
- companioning
- third person singular
- companions
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