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Definition of Companion

1. Verb. Be a companion to somebody.

2. Noun. A friend who is frequently in the company of another. "Comrades in arms"

3. Noun. A traveler who accompanies you.

4. Noun. One paid to accompany or assist or live with another.

Definition of Companion

1. n. One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner.

2. v. t. To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.

Definition of Companion

1. Noun. A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company ¹

2. Noun. (dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another. ¹

3. Noun. (nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below. ¹

4. Noun. (nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves. ¹

5. Noun. (topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk. ¹

6. Noun. (figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person. ¹

7. Noun. (astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another. ¹

8. Verb. (obsolete) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany. ¹

9. Verb. (obsolete) To qualify as a companion; to make equal. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Companion

1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Companion

companaje compand companded compander companders companding compandings compandor compandors compands

compane companiable companie companied companies companion companion animal companion artery to sciatic nerve companion cell companion ladder

companion ladders companion lymph nodes of accessory nerve companion vein companionability companionable companionableness companionably companionate companionate marriage companioned

Literary usage of Companion

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"What cautions Christian and his companion had received of the Shepherds, they had also lost by that the time was come that they had need to put them in ..."

2. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"companion of misery a friar of the ... an excellent companion ; but, from the point of view of his religion, I found him the biggest scoundrel in the world, ..."

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