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Companion   /kəmpˈænjən/   Listen
noun
Companion  n.  
1.
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. "The companions of his fall." "The companion of fools shall smart for it." "Here are your sons again; and I must lose Two of the sweetest companions in the world." "A companion is one with whom we share our bread; a messmate."
2.
A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.
3.
A fellow; in contempt. (Obs.)
4.
(Naut.)
(a)
A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.
(b)
A wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch.
Companion hatch (Naut.), a wooden porch over the entrance or staircase of the cabin.
Companion ladder (Naut.), the ladder by which officers ascend to, or descend from, the quarter-deck.
Companion way (Naut.), a staircase leading to the cabin.
Knights companions, in certain honorary orders, the members of the lowest grades as distinguished from knights commanders, knights grand cross, and the like.
Synonyms: Associate; comrade; mate; compeer; partner; ally; confederate; coadjutor; accomplice.


verb
Companion  v. t.  
1.
To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany. (R.)
2.
To qualify as a companion; to make equal. (Obs.) "Companion me with my mistress."





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"Companion" Quotes from Famous Books



... Carter had shoved him forward, after a heroic struggle, whereupon Skiddles had licked his hand. Something in the little dog's eye, or his action, had induced the rich philanthropist to bargain for him and buy him at a cost of half a dollar. Thereafter Skiddles became his daily companion, his chief distraction, and finally the apple ...
— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various
... not easy. At his dinner, which he took in solitary state, he had a companion, a girl with grey eyes and flushed cheeks who sat opposite to him at the table. She said nothing, but she looked at him, and the beauty of her intoxicated him, and the smile of her found an answer ...
— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper
... Uncle Sam, the motorcycle, the friend and companion of Tom Slade. I have withheld none of their confidences—or trifling differences. I dare say they were both weary and ...
— Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... than footer?' was my formula. Now, though at the time, in order to save fruitless argument, I always agreed with my companion, and praised the game he praised, in the innermost depths of my sub-consciousness, cricket ranked a long way in front of all other forms of sport. I may be wrong. More than once in my career it has been represented to me that I couldn't play cricket for nuts. ...
— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse
... had a skin of water upon his shoulder; they were both half naked, and both approaching to seventy years of age. One of them was deaf, but so intelligent that it was easy to talk with him by signs; he had established a vocabulary of gestures with his companion, who had been his fishing partner for ten years, and who was one of the shrewdest and hardiest Bedouins I had ever seen; in his younger days he had ...
— Travels in Syria and the Holy Land • John Burckhardt


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