companion
IPA: kʌmpˈænjʌn
noun
- A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies
- (dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
- (nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
- (nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
- (topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
- (figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
- (attributive) An appended source of media or information, designed to be used in conjunction with and to enhance the main material.
- (astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.
- A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.
- (obsolete, derogatory) A fellow; a rogue.
verb
- (obsolete) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
- (obsolete) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
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Examples of "companion" in Sentences
- The couple looked companionable.
- He is a companion of my childhood.
- The companions joined in the mirth.
- So, they decided to become companionable.
- He thought it is good to be companionable.
- It is the companion to the title Baja Mania.
- The companionable friends were very friendly.
- Is there anything wrong with becomng companionable
- The companion volume is The Encyclopedia of Fantasy.
- The companions of his youth were the companions of his manhood.
- You know, the word companion comes from the Latin root for bread ...
- Klondike, as Tom Vincent found out, such a companion is absolutely essential.
- In the Klondike, as Tom Vincent found out, such a companion is absolutely essential.
- He's talking - it's gotta be Williams Syndrome - and his companion is absently nodding.
- II. i.29 (189,4) every companion] The use of _companion_ was the same as of _fellow_ now.
- These online additions can take the place of what you call a companion book, which I can tell you, the publisher would never go for.
- The word companion means someone who walks with us in the same direction; it denotes someone with whom we can relate and with whom we can begin to build trust.
- The only other living thing he has as a companion is a cockroach (which does play on some long-ago statements that such insects would be the last survivors of a world catastrophe).
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