Sekirov Dictionary

companion

/kəmˈpæn.jən/

noun10

  1. a friend who stays at someone's side, on a journey or through a part of life
  2. (old-fashioned) A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
  3. [before a noun] An appended source of media or information, designed to be used in conjunction with and to enhance the main material.
  4. A celestial object that is associated with another.
  5. (figurative) A person, thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another person, thing or phenomenon.
  6. A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.
  7. The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
  8. The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
  9. A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
  10. (disapproving, no longer used) A fellow; a rogue.

verb2

  1. (no longer used) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
  2. (no longer used) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
forms

companioned · companioning · companions

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