companion
Other forms: companions; companioned; companioning
A companion is one who serves as a friend or partner in something. Whether it’s travel or dinner or card-playing, your companion is the one who does it with you.
The word companion is a close, um, companion to the word company, and you might as well say that someone you keep company with is your companion. Sometimes, it describes a piece of art or other work that goes with another. For instance, you might read a biography of Emily Dickenson as a companion to her studying her poems. The things go together and complement each other.
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a friend who is frequently in the company of anothertypes:blind datea participant in a blind date (someone you meet for the first time when you have a date with them)type of:frienda person you know well and regard with affection and trust
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a traveler who accompanies yousynonyms: fellow traveler, fellow traveller
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one paid to accompany or assist or live with another
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be a companion to somebody
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