Definition of Companion

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Companion

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.

A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.

A fellow; -- in contempt.

A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.

A wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch.

To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.

To qualify as a companion; to make equal.

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Companion Quotations

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco Chanel

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Thomas Paine

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
Norman Borlaug

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.
Annie Leibovitz

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
Samuel Smiles

Companion Translations

companion in Afrikaans is makker
companion in Dutch is maat, kameraad, kornuit, makker
companion in French is compagne, camarade
companion in Latin is comes comitis, socius-i
companion in Portuguese is companheiro

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