Companion

Noun

 * 1) A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
 * 2)  The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
 * 3)  The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
 * 4)  A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified, knot meets every meridian disk.
 * 5)  A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
 * 6)  A celestial object that is associated with another.
 * 7)  A person employed to accompany or travel with another.

Adjectives for Companion
beloved; wonderful; alluring; pleasant; charming; gentle; beautiful; popular; trusted; genial; attractive; true; faithful; devoted; wonted; burly; happy; thoughtful; useful; fit; illustrious; bosom; constant; intimate; inseparable; indefatigable; daily; gayest; jolly; jocose; meticulous; amiable; agreeable; lively; entertaining; droll; emaciated; pale; slim; young; feeble; stocky; lithe; rough; double-crossing; profligate; undesirable; sneering; doubtful; fickle; morose; weak; pitiable; gloomy; craven; irate; dispirited; tense; shrinking; prostrate; intellectual; drinking; mysterious; familiar; unsuspecting; grave; normal; authentic; eager; boon; ardent; engaging; quaking; ghastly; polite; unique; troublesome; disappointing; lifelong; blithe; confederate; friendly (pi); semi-conscious; equivocal; spruce; subsidiary; often-tried.

Verbs for Companion
associate with—; consort with—; engage—; entertain—; hire—; join—; lack—; lead—; long for—; reproach—; reunite with—; seek—; share with—; sway—; vie with—; —entertains; —escorts.

Derived terms

 * companionable, uncompanionable
 * companion ladder
 * companionship
 * companionway

Related terms
accompany; accompanying; company

Thesaurus
adjunct, ally, alter ego, amah, amiable, amigo, analogon, analogue, associate, attend, attendant, au pair girl, ayah, bachelor, back, back stairs, balance rudder, banneret, baronet, batten, beak, beakhead, beam, bear, bedfellow, bedmate, betweenmaid, biddy, bilge keelson, bitt, board, bodyguard, bollard, bollard timber, bosom buddy, bow, bracket plate, bridge, bring, brother, brother-in-arms, buddy, bulkhead, bulwarks, bunkie, bunkmate, butty, caballero, cam cleat, camarade, capstan, carling, carry, casemate, cathead, cavalier, ceiling, centerboard, chamberfellow, chambermaid, chaperon, chaperone, chevalier, chum, classmate, cleat, close copy, close match, coadjutor, cognate, cohort, colleague, comate, companion, companion piece, companionable, companionway, company, compatriot, compeer, complacent, complement, comrade, concomitant, conduct, conductor, confederate, confrere, congenator, congener, conning tower, consociate, consort, consort with, convivial, convoy, cook, coordinate, copartner, copy, correlate, correlative, correspondent, counter, counterpart, crony, cutwater, daggerboard, davit, dead ringer, deadwood, double, duenna, duplicate, effigy, enchiridion, entrance, equivalent, escalier, escort, esquire, exact likeness, fantail, fellow, fellow member, fellow student, fellow traveler, femme de chambre, figurehead, fille de chambre, fire escape, flight of steps, forefoot, foresheets, foretop, frame, freeboard, futtock, gangplank, gangway, garboard strake, gentlewoman, girl, girl friend, good-natured, gossip, guard, gudgeon, guide, gunnel, gunwale, handbook, handmaid, handmaiden, hatch, hatchway, hawse, hawse timber, hawsehole, hawsepiece, hawsepipe, head, heel, hired girl, housemaid, icon, idol, image, incline, island, keel, keel and keelson, keelson, kevel, kindred spirit, kitchenmaid, knee, knight, knight bachelor, knight banneret, knight baronet, knight-errant, lady-help, lady-in-waiting, landing, landing stage, larboard, lee, lee side, leeward, like, likeness, live-in maid, live-out maid, living image, living picture, maid, maidservant, maintop, manual, match, mate, messmate, miniature, mirroring, mizzentop, model, near duplicate, nose, nursemaid, obverse, old crony, paddle wheel, pal, parallel, pard, pardner, parlormaid, partner, pendant, perron, photograph, picture, pintle, planking, playfellow, playmate, poop, port, porthole, portrait, portside, post, propeller, prow, pulpit, rail, ramp, reciprocal, reference book, reflection, resemblance, rib, roommate, rubbing, rubrail, rudder, rudderpost, rudderstock, run, running mate, safe-conduct, schoolfellow, schoolmate, scullery maid, scupper, scuttle, scuttlebutt, second self, semblance, servant girl, servitress, shadow, shaft tunnel, sheave hole, sheer strake, sheets, shelf, shelfpiece, shepherd, shipmate, side partner, sidekick, similitude, simulacrum, sister, skeg, snorkel, sociable, soubrette, soul mate, spiral staircase, spit and image, spitting image, squire, staircase, stairs, stairway, stanchion, starboard, stem, stepping-stones, steps, stern, stile, strake, such, suchlike, superstructure, swain, tail end, tally, teammate, the like of, the likes of, tiller, trace, tracing, transom, treads and risers, truck, tweeny, twin, upstairs maid, usher, very image, very picture, waiting maid, waterline, waterway, weather, weather side, weatherboard, wench, wheel, winch, windlass, windward, workfellow,

Etymology
From, from compaignon: (French: compagnon:), from Low  undefined: (nominative singular companio:), from  (with + bread), first attested in the  Lex Salica as a translation of a  word represented by  𐌲𐌰𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰:, from 𐌲𐌰-: + 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌱𐌰:,  galeipo: from ga-: + leipo:. More at co-, loaf.

Translations

 * Arabic: ,
 * Bulgarian: придружител,
 * Catalan: acompanyant
 * Chamicuro:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Galician: compañeiro
 * German:, ,


 * Hungarian:
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin:
 * Novial: kompane
 * Old English: ,
 * Polish: towarzysz, towarzyszka , kompan
 * Romanian:
 * Slovene: tovariš (1), spremljevalec (2)
 * Spanish: