Intimate vs. Companion: What's the Difference?

Characterized by close personal acquaintance or familiarity

A person who accompanies or associates with another; a comrade.

Relating to or indicative of one's deepest nature

A domestic partner.

Essential; innermost

A person employed to assist, live with, or travel with another.

Marked by informality and privacy

One of a pair or set of things; a mate.

Very personal; private

A companionway.

Of or involved in a sexual relationship

To be a companion to; accompany.

A close friend or confidant.

A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies

To state or express indirectly

(dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another.

To make evident indirectly

(nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.

(Archaic) To announce; proclaim.

(nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.

Closely acquainted; familiar.

(topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.

Of or involved in a sexual relationship.

(figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.

; private.

(attributive) An appended source of media or information, designed to be used in conjunction with and to enhance the main material.

Pertaining to details that require great familiarity to know.

(astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.

Very finely mixed.

A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.

A very close friend.

A fellow; a rogue.

(in plural intimates) women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.

(obsolete) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.

(ambitransitive) To suggest or disclose (something) discreetly.

(obsolete) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.

To notify.

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.

Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty.

A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.

Near; close; direct; thorough; complete.

A fellow; - in contempt.

Close in friendship or acquaintance; familiar; confidential; as, an intimate friend.

A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.

An intimate friend or associate; a confidant.

To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.

To announce; to declare; to publish; to communicate; to make known.

To qualify as a companion; to make equal.

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.

A person who is frequently in the company of another;

Someone to whom private matters are confided

A traveler who accompanies you

Give to understand;

One paid to accompany or assist or live with another

Imply as a possibility;

Be a companion to somebody

Marked by close aquaintance, association, or familiarity;

Having or fostering a warm or friendly atmosphere; especially through smallness and informality;

Having mutual interests or affections; of established friendship;

Involved in a sexual relationship;

Innermost or essential;

Thoroughly acquainted with through study or experience;