companion
Speech parts
1. companion - Noun
2. companion - Verb
Meaning
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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Examples
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.
Ask my companion if I be a thief.
Who makes the wolf his companion should carry a dog under his cloak.
A merry companion on the road is as good as a nag.