Word Meanings - COMPANION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: 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; a comrade; a consort; a partner. The companions of his fall. Milton. The companion of fools shall smart for it. Prov. xiii. 20 (Rev. Ver. Here are your sons again; and I must lose Two of the sweetest companions in the world. Shak. A companion is one with whom we share our bread; a messmate. Trench. 2. A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath. 3. A fellow; -- in contempt. Shak. 4. Etym: 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. Companion hatch , a wooden porch over the entrance or staircase of the cabin. -- Companion ladder , the ladder by which officers ascend to, or descend from, the quarter-deck. Totten. -- Companion way , 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPANION)

• Abettor
• Supporter
• advocate
• instigator
• promoter
• assistant
• companion
• accomplice
• ally
• encourager
• associate
• adviser
• confederate
• 'participes criminis'
• coadjutor
• accessary
• helper
• Ally
• Friend
• supporter
• aider
• abetter
• accessory
• colleague
• Associate
• Companion
• friend
• consort
• helpmate
• comrade
• partner
• Colleague
• Helper
• adjutant
• assessor
• Fellow
• adherent
• equal
• compeer
• member
• match
• tally
• correlative

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMPANION)

• Avoid
• abandon
• excommunicate
• blackball
• banish
• exclude

Related words: (words related to COMPANION)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• INSTIGATOR
  One who instigates or incites. Burke.
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• COMPANIONLESS
  Without a companion.
• CONSORTSHIP
  The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• CONSORT
  A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest,
• ADJUTANT
  A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty. Adjutant general , the principal staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general
• TALLYHO
  1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds. 2. A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.
• ADVOCATE
  advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• PARTNER
  An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership. 3. pl. (more info) 1. One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: A husband or
• ACCOMPLICESHIP
  The state of being an accomplice. Sir H. Taylor.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• FELLOWSHIP
  1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
• FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
  companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
• 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.
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• CO-ASSESSOR
  A joint assessor.
• COADJUTANT
  Mutually assisting or operating; helping. J. Philips.
• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• UNFRIEND
  One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• ALIMENTALLY
  So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.
• HORIZONTALLY
  In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;