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Companion

see synonyms of companion

Noun

1. associate, companion, comrade, familiar, fellow

a friend who is frequently in the company of another

Example Sentences:
'drinking companions'
'comrades in arms'

2. companion, fellow traveler, fellow traveller

a traveler who accompanies you

3. companion

one paid to accompany or assist or live with another

Verb

4. accompany, companion, company, keep company

be a companion to somebody

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Companion

see synonyms of companion
noun
1. 
a person who is an associate of another or others; comrade
2. 
(esp formerly) an employee, usually a woman, who provides company for an employer, esp an elderly woman
3. 
a. 
one of a pair; match
b. 
(as modifier)
a companion volume
4. 
a guidebook or handbook
5. 
a member of the lowest rank of any of certain orders of knighthood
6. astronomy
the fainter of the two components of a double star
verb
7. (transitive)
to accompany or be a companion to
noun
nautical
a. 
a raised frame on an upper deck with windows to give light to the deck below
b. 
(as modifier)
a companion ladder

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Companion

see synonyms of companion
noun
1. 
a person who associates with or accompanies another or others; associate; comrade
2. 
a person employed to live or travel with another
3. 
either of two persons not married to each other but otherwise in an intimate, spouse-like relationship: often, specif., used when the persons are of the same sex
4.  [C-]
a member of the lowest rank in an order of knighthood
5. 
a thing that matches another in sort, color, etc.; one of a pair or set
6. 
a handbook on a specific subject
a companion to French literature
7.  Obsolete
a scoundrel
verb transitive
8. 
to accompany
noun Nautical
1. 
the covering at the head of a companionway
2. 
companionway

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Companion

see synonyms of companion
n.
1.
a. A person who accompanies or associates with another; a comrade.
b. A domestic partner.
2. A person employed to assist, live with, or travel with another.
3. One of a pair or set of things; a mate.
tr.v. com·pan·ioned, com·pan·ion·ing, com·pan·ions
To be a companion to; accompany.
n.
Nautical
A companionway.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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