companion
Forms
- Plural
- companions
Definitions
1.A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies
- His dog has been his trusted companion for the last five years.
- The krogan have had a love-hate relationship with varren for millennia, alternately fighting them for territory and embracing them as treasured companions.
- For the most part, Hefner's female companions all adhered to the same mold: twentysomething, bosomy and blonde. "Well, I guess I know what I like," he once said when asked about his preferences.
2.The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
3.The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
4.A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3956
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle English companion, from Old French compaignon (“companion”) (modern French compagnon), from Late Latin compāniōn- (nominative singular compāniō, whence French copain), from com- + pānis (literally, with + bread), a word first attested in the Frankish Lex Salica as a calque of a Germanic word, probably Frankish *galaibo, *gahlaibō (“messmate”, literally “with-bread”), from Proto-Germanic *gahlaibô.