Word Meanings - CHUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CHUM)

• Crony
• Ally
• chum
• mate
• Friend
• Associate
• companion
• acquaintance
• familiar
• ally
• messmate
• coadjutor
• confidant
• adherent

Related words: (words related to CHUM)

• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• COMPANIONLESS
  Without a companion.
• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• CRONY
  1. A crone. "Marry not an old crony." Burton. 2. An intimate companion; a familiar frend. He soon found his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time. W. Irving.
• ASSOCIATE
  1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . 2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. 3. To connect or place together in thought.
• FRIENDSHIP
  1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• MESSMATE
  An associate in a mess.
• FRIEND
  freón, freógan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frændi kinsman, Sw. frände. Goth. frij friend, frij to love. sq. root83. See Free, 1. One who entertains for another
• COADJUTOR
  The assistant of a bishop or of a priest holding a benefice. (more info) 1. One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker. Craftily outwitting her perjured coadjutor. Sheridan.
• COMPANIONABLE
  Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable. "Each companionable guest." Mallett. "Companionable wit." Clarendon. -- Com*pan"ion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*pan"ion*a*bly, adv.
• ADHERENTLY
  In an adherent manner.
• COMPANION
  companio , fr. L. com- + panis 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;
• ASSOCIATESHIP
  The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.
• FAMILIARITY
  1. The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity. 2. Anything said or done by one person to another
• FAMILIARIZATION
  The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.
• ADHERENT
  Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. (more info) 1. Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope. 2. Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
• FRIENDING
  Friendliness. Shak.
• UNFRIEND
  One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
• ACRONYCALLY
  In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.
• ACRONYCTOUS
  Acronycal.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• BEFRIEND
  To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. By the darkness befriended. Longfellow.
• PREACQUAINTANCE
  Previous acquaintance or knowledge. Harris.
• BACKFRIEND
  A secret enemy. South.