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companion

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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Patience is the companion of wisdom. Augustine of Hippo

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. Paul Valéry

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. Walter Scott

Ask my companion if I be a thief. Italian Proverb

Who makes the wolf his companion should carry a dog under his cloak. Italian Proverb

A merry companion on the road is as good as a nag. Japanese Proverb

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