Definitions for companion

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companion com·pan·ion

Spelling: [kuh m-pan-yuh n]

IPA: /kəmˈpæn yən/

Companion is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 254 anagrams from letters in companion (acimnnoop).

Definitions for companion

noun

1. a person who is frequently in the company of, associates with, or accompanies another:
2. a person employed to accompany, assist, or live with another in the capacity of a helpful friend.
3. a mate or match for something:
4. a handbook or guide:
5. a member of the lowest rank in an order of knighthood or of a grade in an order.
6. Also called companion star, comes. Astronomy. the fainter of the two stars that constitute a double star. Compare primary (def 19b).
7. Obsolete. a fellow.
8. a covering over the top of a companionway.
9. a companionway.

verb (used with object)

1. to be a companion to; accompany.

Origin of companion

1250-1300; Middle English compainoun Anglo-French; Old French compaignon Late Latin compāniōn- (stem of compāniō) messmate, equivalent to com- com- + pān(is) bread + -

Examples for companion

We continuously pause to pull them out while Zalwar Khan and his companion smirk at us and chew unbothered.

Going back amazed, he asked his companion who the girl he had seen could have been.

The device is plugged into the wall and the companion smartphone app instructs the device when to start recording.

As Philothea turned towards her companion, she met Aspasia's earnest gaze.

Should she leave her husband and endure loneliness or tolerate his dalliance and keep a companion for old age?

The man who faced the redhead was as light as his companion was ponderous.

Exclusion was to me starvation, and I eagerly adopted the counsel of my companion.

And, of this island realm, he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.

He meets his current companion, Sandra Lee, at a party in the Hamptons.

He declined to give his name and handed me off to his companion, Diana Castillo, a middle-aged woman who told me she was 35.