Intimate vs. Companion: What's the Difference?

Intimate and Companion Definitions
Intimate
Characterized by close personal acquaintance or familiarity
Intimate friends.
Companion
A person who accompanies or associates with another; a comrade.
Intimate
Relating to or indicative of one's deepest nature
Intimate prayers.
Companion
A domestic partner.
Intimate
Essential; innermost
The intimate structure of matter.
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Companion
A person employed to assist, live with, or travel with another.
Intimate
Marked by informality and privacy
An intimate nightclub.
Companion
One of a pair or set of things; a mate.
Intimate
Very personal; private
An intimate letter.
Companion
A companionway.
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Intimate
Of or involved in a sexual relationship
Have they been intimate?.
Companion
To be a companion to; accompany.
Intimate
A close friend or confidant.
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.
Intimate
To state or express indirectly
She intimated that she did not want him to call back.
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Companion
(dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
Intimate
To make evident indirectly
His worn clothes intimated that he was in need of money.
Companion
(nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
Intimate
(Archaic) To announce; proclaim.
Companion
(nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
Intimate
Closely acquainted; familiar.
An intimate friend
He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for.
Companion
(topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
Intimate
Of or involved in a sexual relationship.
She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.
Companion
(figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
Intimate
; private.
An intimate setting
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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Intimate
Pertaining to details that require great familiarity to know.
Companion
(astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.
Intimate
Very finely mixed.
Black powder consists of an intimate mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur.
Companion
A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.
A companion of the Bath
Intimate
A very close friend.
Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing.
Companion
A fellow; a rogue.
Intimate
(in plural intimates) women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.
You'll find bras and panties in the women's intimates section upstairs.
Companion
(obsolete) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
Intimate
(ambitransitive) To suggest or disclose (something) discreetly.
He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated.
Companion
(obsolete) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
Intimate
To notify.
I will intimate you when the details are available.
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.
Intimate
Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty.
Companion
A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.
Intimate
Near; close; direct; thorough; complete.
He was honored with an intimate and immediate admission.
Companion
A fellow; - in contempt.
Intimate
Close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar; confidential; as, an intimate friend.
Companion
A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.
Intimate
An intimate friend or associate; a confidant.
Companion
To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
Intimate
To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to make known.
He, incontinent, did proclaim and intimate open war.
So both conspiring 'gan to intimateEach other's grief.
Companion
To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
Companion me with my mistress.
Intimate
To suggest obscurely or indirectly; to refer to remotely; to give slight notice of; to hint; as, he intimated his intention of resigning his office.
The names of simple ideas and substances, with the abstract ideas in the mind, intimate some real existence, from which was derived their original pattern.
Companion
A person who is frequently in the company of another;
Drinking companions
Comrades in arms
Intimate
Someone to whom private matters are confided
Companion
A traveler who accompanies you
Intimate
Give to understand;
I insinuated that I did not like his wife
Companion
One paid to accompany or assist or live with another
Intimate
Imply as a possibility;
The evidence suggests a need for more clarification
Companion
Be a companion to somebody
Intimate
Marked by close aquaintance, association, or familiarity;
Intimate friend
Intimate relations between economics, politics, and legal principles
Intimate
Having or fostering a warm or friendly atmosphere; especially through smallness and informality;
Had a cozy chat
A relaxed informal manner
An intimate cocktail lounge
The small room was cozy and intimate
Intimate
Having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship;
On familiar terms
Pretending she is on an intimate footing with those she slanders
Intimate
Involved in a sexual relationship;
The intimate (or sexual) relations between husband and wife
She had been intimate with many men
Intimate
Innermost or essential;
The inner logic of Cubism
The internal contradictions of the theory
The intimate structure of matter
Intimate
Thoroughly acquainted with through study or experience;
This girl, so intimate with nature
KnowledgeaIble about the technique of painting