COMPANION
\kəmpˈani͡ən], \kəmpˈaniən], \k_ə_m_p_ˈa_n_iə_n]\
Definitions of COMPANION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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be a companion to somebody
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a person who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"
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a traveler who accompanies you
By Princeton University
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be a companion to somebody
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a person who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"
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a traveler who accompanies you
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.
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A fellow; -- in contempt.
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A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.
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A wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch.
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To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
By Oddity Software
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A comrade; an associate or partner.
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To accompany; attend; companionway, the stairway leading from the deck to the cabin of a ship.
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Companionable.
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Companionableness.
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To accompany.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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To accompany.
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Attendant.
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One who keeps company or frequently associates with another; a comrade; one who accompanies another; an associate; a particular grade in an order of knighthood.
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A raised window-frame on the quarter-deck to admit light into the cabin; a sort of wooden porch placed over the entrance or staircase of the cabin in some ships. The companionway, the cabin stairs. The companion-ladder, the ladder by which officers ascend to and descend from the quarter-deck.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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One who keeps company or frequently associates with another: an associate or partner.
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COMPANIONSHIP.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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