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Companion

noun

A friend who is frequently in the company of another. Synonyms: associate, comrade, familiar, fellow. "Comrades in arms"

A traveler who accompanies you. Synonyms: fellow traveler, fellow traveller.

One paid to accompany or assist or live with another.

verb

Be a companion to somebody. Synonyms: accompany, company, keep company.

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"Companion" Quotes from Famous Books

... Professor Malaise, of Liege, explored with me this same cave of Engihoul, and beneath a hard floor of stalagmite we found mud full of bones of extinct and recent animals, such as Schmerling had described, and my companion, persevering in his researches after I had returned to England, extracted from the same deposit two human lower jaw-bones retaining their teeth. The skulls from these Belgian caverns display no marked deviation from the normal European type of the ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... and Sweyn lost his vantage in the shock of a fresh horror at the homestead. Trella was no more, and her end a mystery. The poor old woman crawled out in a bright gleam to visit a bed-ridden gossip living beyond the fir-grove. Under the trees she was last seen, halting for her companion, sent back for a forgotten present. Quick alarm sprang, calling every man to the search. Her stick was found among the brushwood only a few paces from the path, but no track or stain, for a gusty wind was sifting the snow from the branches, and hid all sign of how ...

— The Were-Wolf • Clemence Housman

... located in one of our middle-western states. They had with them an old school chum named John Powell, usually called "Songbird," because of his habit of making up and reciting so-called poetry, and were presently joined by another old school companion named William Philander Tubbs, a dudish chap who thought more of his dress and the society of ladies than he did of his studies. Tom loved to play jokes on Tubbs, who was generally too dense to see where the fun ...

— The Rover Boys in the Air - From College Campus to the Clouds • Edward Stratemeyer

... found a purse,'" said his companion. "Say rather 'we have found a purse' and 'how lucky we are.' Travelers ought to share alike the fortunes or misfortunes ...

— The AEsop for Children - With pictures by Milo Winter • AEsop

... these things, amidst renewed simplicity of life we shall have leisure to think about our work, that faithful daily companion, which no man any longer will venture to call the Curse of labour: for surely then we shall be happy in it, each in his place, no man grudging at another; no one bidden to be any man's SERVANT, every one ...

— Hopes and Fears for Art • William Morris

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