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Webster 1913 Edition

Companion

Com-pan′ion

(kŏm-păn′yŭn)
,
Noun.
[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.
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.
Shakespeare
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.
[Obs.]
Shak.
4.
[Cf. OSp.
compaña
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.
Syn. – Associate; comrade; mate; compeer; partner; ally; confederate; coadjutor; accomplice.

Com-pan′ion

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
[R.]
Ruskin.
2.
To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
[Obs.]
Companion
me with my mistress.
Shakespeare
–
Com-pan′ion-a-ble-ness
,
Noun.
–
Com-pan′ion-a-bly
, adv.

Webster 1828 Edition

Companion

COMPANION

,
Noun.
1.
One who keeps company with another; one with whom a person frequently associates, and converses. It differs from friend, says Johnson, as acquaintance from confidence. The word does not necessarily imply friendship; but a companion is often or generally a friend.
A companion of fools shall be destroyed. Prov. 13.
2.
One who accompanies another; as two persons meeting casually and traveling together are called companions. So soldiers are called companions in arms.
3.
A partner; an associate.
Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labor, and fellow soldier. Phil. 2.
4.
A fellow; a mate.
5.
A sort of wooden porch placed over the entrance or stair case of the cabin in merchant ships. Hence the ladder by which officers ascend to and descend from the quarter deck is called the companion ladder.

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