'Companion' definitions:
Definition of 'companion'
From: WordNet
noun
A friend who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" [syn: companion, comrade, fellow, familiar, associate]
noun
A traveler who accompanies you [syn: companion, fellow traveler, fellow traveller]
noun
One paid to accompany or assist or live with another
verb
Definition of 'Companion'
From: GCIDE
- Companion \Com*pan"ion\ (k[o^]m*p[a^]n"y[u^]n), n. [F. compagnon, OF. compaing, fr. an assumed LL. companio (cf. companium fellowship, a mess), fr. L. com- + panis bread. See Pantry.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- The companions of his fall. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The companion of fools shall smart for it. --Prov. xiii. 20 (Rev. Ver.). [1913 Webster]
- Here are your sons again; and I must lose Two of the sweetest companions in the world. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A companion is one with whom we share our bread; a messmate. --Trench. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A fellow; -- in contempt. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. [Cf. OSp. compa[~n]a an outhouse, office.] (Naut.) (a) A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck. (b) A wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch. [1913 Webster]
- Companion hatch (Naut.), a wooden porch over the entrance or staircase of the cabin.
- Companion ladder (Naut.), the ladder by which officers ascend to, or descend from, the quarter-deck. --Totten.
- Companion way (Naut.), a staircase leading to the cabin.
- Knights companions, in certain honorary orders, the members of the lowest grades as distinguished from knights commanders, knights grand cross, and the like.
- Syn: Associate; comrade; mate; compeer; partner; ally; confederate; coadjutor; accomplice. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Companion'
From: GCIDE
- Companion \Com*pan"ion\, v. t.
- 1. To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany. [R.] --Ruskin. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To qualify as a companion; to make equal. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Companion me with my mistress. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'companion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Bayard,
- 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,
- Don Quixote,
- 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,
- Gawain,
- 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,
- Lancelot,
- 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,
- Ritter,
- 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,
- Sidney,
- similitude,
- simulacrum,
- Sir Galahad,
- 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