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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