Companion vs. Company
Companion and Company Definitions
Companion
A person who accompanies or associates with another; a comrade.
Company
A group of persons
A company of scientists.
Companion
A domestic partner.
Company
One's companions or associates
Moved in fast company.
Is known by the company she keeps.
Companion
A person employed to assist, live with, or travel with another.
Company
A guest or guests
Had company for the weekend.
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Companion
One of a pair or set of things; a mate.
Company
The state of friendly companionship; fellowship
Was grateful for her company.
Friends who finally parted company.
Companion
A companionway.
Company
A business enterprise; a firm.
Companion
To be a companion to; accompany.
Company
A partner or partners not specifically named in a firm's title
Lee Rogers and Company.
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Companion
A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies
His dog has been his trusted companion for the last five years.
Company
A troupe of dramatic or musical performers
A repertory company.
Companion
(dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
Company
A subdivision of a military regiment or battalion that constitutes the lowest administrative unit. It is usually under the command of a captain and is made up of at least two platoons.
Companion
(nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
Company
A unit of firefighters.
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Companion
(nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
Company
A ship's crew and officers. See Usage Note at collective noun.
Companion
(topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
Company
To accompany or associate with.
Companion
(figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
Company
To keep company with someone; associate.
Companion
(attributive) An appended source of media or information, designed to be used in conjunction with and to enhance the main material.
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Company
A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
Companion
(astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.
Company
A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
A company of actors.
Companion
A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.
A companion of the Bath
Company
(military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
The boys in Company C
Companion
A fellow; a rogue.
Company
A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
It took six companies to put out the fire.
Companion
(obsolete) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
Company
(nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
Companion
(obsolete) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
Company
An intelligence service.
As he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.
Companion
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.
The companion of fools shall smart for it.
Here are your sons again; and I must loseTwo of the sweetest companions in the world.
A companion is one with whom we share our bread; a messmate.
Company
A small group of birds or animals.
Companion
A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.
Company
(legal) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
Companion
A fellow; - in contempt.
Company
(business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
Companion
A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.
Company
(uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
Keep the house clean; I have company coming.
Companion
To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
Company
(uncountable) Companionship.
I treasure your company.
Companion
To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
Companion me with my mistress.
Company
To accompany, keep company with.
Companion
A person who is frequently in the company of another;
Drinking companions
Comrades in arms
Company
To associate.
Companion
A traveler who accompanies you
Company
To be a lively, cheerful companion.
Companion
One paid to accompany or assist or live with another
Company
To have sexual intercourse.
Companion
Be a companion to somebody
Company
The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.
Evil company doth corrupt good manners.
Brethren, farewell: your company alongI will not wish.
Company
A companion or companions.
To thee and thy company I bidA hearty welcome.
Company
An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient.
Thou shalt meet a company of prophets.
Company
Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine.
Company
Society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse.
Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company.
Company
An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company.
Company
Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; - often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.
Company
A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.
Company
The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company.
Company
The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play.
Company
To accompany or go with; to be companion to.
Company
To associate.
Men which have companied with us all the time.
Company
To be a gay companion.
Company
To have sexual commerce.
Company
An institution created to conduct business;
He only invests in large well-established companies
He started the company in his garage
Company
Organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical);
The traveling company all stayed at the same hotel
Company
The state of being with someone;
He missed their company
He enjoyed the society of his friends
Company
Small military unit; usually two or three platoons
Company
A band of people associated temporarily in some activity;
They organized a party to search for food
The company of cooks walked into the kitchen
Company
A social gathering of guests or companions;
The house was filled with company when I arrived
Company
A social or business visitor;
The room was a mess because he hadn't expected company
Company
A unit of firefighters including their equipment;
A hook-and-ladder company
Company
Crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship
Company
Be a companion to somebody
