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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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... Professor Malaise, of Liege, explored with me this same cave of Engihoul, and beneath a hard floor of stalagmite we found mud full of bones of extinct and recent animals, such as Schmerling had described, and my companion, persevering in his researches after I had returned to England, extracted from the same deposit two human lower jaw-bones retaining their teeth. The skulls from these Belgian caverns display no marked deviation from the normal European type of the ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell
... and Sweyn lost his vantage in the shock of a fresh horror at the homestead. Trella was no more, and her end a mystery. The poor old woman crawled out in a bright gleam to visit a bed-ridden gossip living beyond the fir-grove. Under the trees she was last seen, halting for her companion, sent back for a forgotten present. Quick alarm sprang, calling every man to the search. Her stick was found among the brushwood only a few paces from the path, but no track or stain, for a gusty wind was sifting the snow from the branches, and hid all sign of how ...
— The Were-Wolf • Clemence Housman
... located in one of our middle-western states. They had with them an old school chum named John Powell, usually called "Songbird," because of his habit of making up and reciting so-called poetry, and were presently joined by another old school companion named William Philander Tubbs, a dudish chap who thought more of his dress and the society of ladies than he did of his studies. Tom loved to play jokes on Tubbs, who was generally too dense to see where the fun ...
— The Rover Boys in the Air - From College Campus to the Clouds • Edward Stratemeyer
... found a purse,'" said his companion. "Say rather 'we have found a purse' and 'how lucky we are.' Travelers ought to share alike the fortunes or misfortunes ...
— The AEsop for Children - With pictures by Milo Winter • AEsop
... these things, amidst renewed simplicity of life we shall have leisure to think about our work, that faithful daily companion, which no man any longer will venture to call the Curse of labour: for surely then we shall be happy in it, each in his place, no man grudging at another; no one bidden to be any man's SERVANT, every one ...
— Hopes and Fears for Art • William Morris


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