Definition of "companion"

companion

/kəmˈpænjən/

noun
plural companions
1. A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies
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  Here are your sons again; and I must lose / Two of the sweetest companions in the world.
  1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene v]
  The krogan have had a love-hate relationship with varren for millennia, alternately fighting them for territory and embracing them as treasured companions.
  2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Varren Codex entry
  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.
  2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91”, in Rolling Stone
2. (dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
3. (nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
4. (nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
5. (topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
6. (figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
7. (attributive) An appended source of media or information, designed to be used in conjunction with and to enhance the main material.
8. (astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.
9. A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.
10. (obsolete, derogatory) A fellow; a rogue.
  Quotations
  and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald, scurvy, / cogging companion,
  c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i], line 111
verb
third-person singular simple present companions, present participle companioning, simple past and past participle companioned
1. (obsolete) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
  Quotations
  we had better turn south quickly and compare the elements of education which formed , and of creation which companioned , Salvator .
  1865, John Ruskin, Precious Thoughts
2. (obsolete) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
  Quotations
  Companion me with my mistress.
  c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene ii]

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