Dictionary Definition
companion
Noun
1 a person who is frequently in the company of
another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" [syn: comrade, fellow, familiar, associate]
2 a traveler who accompanies you [syn: fellow
traveler, fellow
traveller]
3 one paid to accompany or assist or live with
another v : be a companion to somebody [syn: company, accompany, keep
company]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From compaignon (French: compagnon), from companionem (nominative of companio) (with + bread).Pronunciation
Noun
- A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one
spends time or keeps
company
- His dog has been his trusted companion for the last five years.
- A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
- The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
- The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
Derived terms
Translations
someone with whom one spends time or keeps
company
- Arabic: ,
- Czech: společník
- Dutch: metgezel
- Finnish: toveri
- Galician: compañeiro
- German: Gefährte , Gefährtin , Kompagnon
- Hungarian: társ
- Kurdish: ,
- Novial: kompane
- Old English: ġesīþ, ġefēra
- Polish: towarzysz , towarzyszka , kompan
- Romanian: tovarăş
- Slovene: tovariš (1), spremljevalec (2)
- Spanish: compañero
Extensive Definition
Companion may refer to:
- Companion animal, a pet animal kept for companionship
- Companion parrot, a pet parrot that interacts with its owner
- Companion weapon, an object held in the non-sword hand while fencing
- Companion star, a star in a binary star system
- Muhammad's companions, the Sahaba
- Companion cavalry, Alexander the Great's elite cavalry
- Foot Companion, the primary type of soldier in Alexander the Great's army
- Lady's companion, a genteel woman who acted as a companion for woman of rank or wealth
- Companion planting, planting of different crops in close physical proximity
- A handbook or guide book or compendium e.g. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion or The Oxford Companion to Music
- A member of a Holy Royal Arch chapter
In fiction:
- Companion (Doctor Who), a character who travels with the Doctor in the TV series Doctor Who
- Companion (Firefly), a type of courtesan and entertainer in the TV series Firefly
- The Companions or Heroes of the Lance, a group of heroes in the fictional Dragonlance world
- Companion (manga), an ongoing manga series published in Kodansha's Magazine Z
In music:
- Companion (Patricia Barber album), a (1999) album by Patricia Barber
companion in German: Gefährte
companion in French: Compagnon
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Bayard,
Don Quixote, Gawain,
Lancelot, Ritter, Sidney, Sir Galahad, abigail, accompanier, accompanist, accompanyist, ace, adjunct, ally, alter ego, amah, amiable, amigo, analogon, analogue, associate, attend, attendant, au pair girl,
ayah, bachelor, back, back stairs, balance rudder,
banneret, baronet, batten, beak, beakhead, beam, bear, bedfellow, bedmate, betweenmaid, biddy, bilge keelson, bitt, board, bodyguard, bollard, bollard timber, bosom
buddy, bow, bracket plate,
bridge, bring, brother, brother-in-arms,
buddy, bulkhead, bulwarks, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, caballero, cam cleat, camarade, capstan, carling, carry, casemate, cathead, cavalier, ceiling, centerboard, chamberfellow, chambermaid, chaperon, chaperone, chevalier, chum, classmate, cleat, close copy, close match,
coadjutor, cognate, cohort, colleague, comate, companion, companion piece,
companionable,
companionway,
company, compatriot, compeer, complacent, complement, comrade, concomitant, conduct, conductor, confederate, confrere, congenator, congener, conning tower,
consociate, consort, consort with, convivial, convoy, cook, coordinate, copartner, copy, correlate, correlative, correspondent, counter, counterpart, crony, cutwater, daggerboard, davit, dead ringer, deadwood, double, duenna, duplicate, effigy, enchiridion, entrance, equivalent, escalier, escort, esquire, exact likeness,
fantail, fellow, fellow member, fellow
student, fellow traveler, femme de chambre, figurehead, fille de chambre,
fire escape, flight of steps, forefoot, foresheets, foretop, frame, freeboard, futtock, gangplank, gangway, garboard strake,
gentlewoman,
girl, girl friend,
good-natured, gossip,
guard, gudgeon, guide, gunnel, gunwale, handbook, handmaid, handmaiden, hatch, hatchway, hawse, hawse timber, hawsehole, hawsepiece, hawsepipe, head, heel, hired girl, housemaid, icon, idol, image, incline, island, keel, keel and keelson, keelson, kevel, kindred spirit, kitchenmaid, knee, knight, knight bachelor, knight
banneret, knight baronet, knight-errant, lady-help,
lady-in-waiting, landing, landing stage, larboard, lee, lee side, leeward, like, likeness, live-in maid,
live-out maid, living image, living picture, maid, maidservant, maintop, manual, match, mate, messmate, miniature, mirroring, mizzentop, model, near duplicate, nose, nursemaid, obverse, old crony, paddle
wheel, pal, parallel, pard, pardner, parlormaid, partner, pendant, perron, photograph, picture, pintle, planking, playfellow, playmate, poop, port, porthole, portrait, portside, post, propeller, prow, pulpit, rail, ramp, reciprocal, reference book,
reflection, resemblance, rib, roommate, rubbing, rubrail, rudder, rudderpost, rudderstock, run, running mate, safe-conduct,
schoolfellow,
schoolmate, scullery
maid, scupper, scuttle, scuttlebutt, second self,
semblance, servant
girl, servitress,
shadow, shaft tunnel,
sheave hole, sheer strake, sheets, shelf, shelfpiece, shepherd, shipmate, side partner,
sidekick, similitude, simulacrum, sister, skeg, snorkel, sociable, soubrette, soul mate, spiral
staircase, spit and image, spitting image, squire, staircase, stairs, stairway, stanchion, starboard, stem, stepping-stones, steps, stern, stile, strake, such, suchlike, superstructure, swain, tail end, tally, teammate, the like of, the
likes of, tiller,
trace, tracing, transom, treads and risers,
truck, tweeny, twin, upstairs maid, usher, very image, very picture,
waiting maid, waterline, waterway, weather, weather side, weatherboard, wench, wheel, winch, windlass, windward, workfellow, yokefellow, yokemate