Definition of companion Companion

/kʌmpæˈnjʌn/ - [kumpanyun] - com•pan•ion

We found 28 definitions of companion from 9 different sources.

What does companion mean?

Noun Plural: companions
companion - a friend who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms"
		comrade, fellow, familiar, associate
		friend a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
		escort, date the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them
		playfellow, playmate a companion at play
companion - a traveler who accompanies you
		fellow traveler, fellow traveller
		traveler, traveller a person who changes location
companion - one paid to accompany or assist or live with another
		attendant, attender, tender a person who is present and participates in a meeting; "he was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees"

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companion (Noun)
A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company.
companion (Noun)
A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
companion (Noun)
The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
companion (Noun)
The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
companion (Noun)
A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
companion (Noun)
A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
companion (Noun)
A celestial object that is associated with another.
companion (Verb)
To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
companion (Verb)
To qualify as a companion; to make equal.

companion (n.)
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.
companion (n.)
A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.
companion (n.)
A fellow; -- in contempt.
companion (n.)
A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.
companion (n.)
A wooden hood or penthouse covering the companion way; a companion hatch.
companion (v. t.)
To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
companion (v. t.)
To qualify as a companion; to make equal.

companion
kom-pan′yun, n. one who keeps company or frequently associates with another: an associate or partner: a higher rank of servant, who, though receiving pay, stands rather in the relation of a friend: fellow, in a bad sense.—v.t. to accompany.—adj. of the nature of a companion: accompanying.—adjs. Compan′iable (obs.), sociable; Compan′ionable, fit to be a companion: agreeable.—n. Compan′ionableness.—adv. Compan′ionably.—adj. Compan′ioned, having a companion.—ns. Compan′ionhood, Compan′ionary.—adj. Compan′ionless, without a companion.—n. Compan′ionship. [Fr. compagnon, from Low L. companium, a mess—L. com, with, and panis, bread.]
companion
kom-pan′yun, n. (naut.) the skylight or window-frame through which light passes to a lower deck or cabin: companion-ladder.—ns. Compan′ion-ladd′er, the ladder or stair leading from the deck to the officers' cabin; Compan′ion-way, a staircase from the deck to a cabin. [Cf. Dut. kompanje; O. Fr. compagne; It. compagne.]

companion
a sort of wooden porch placed over the entrance or stair case of the master’s cabin in a merchant-ship.

companion
The framing and sash-lights upon the quarter-deck or round-house, through which light passes to the cabins and decks below; and a sort of wooden hood placed over the entrance or staircase of the master's cabin in small ships. Flush-decked vessels are generally fitted with movable companions, to keep the rain or water from descending, which are unshipped when the capstan is required.