Word Finder - companion

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

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His dog has been his trusted companion for the last five years.

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A person employed to accompany or travel with another.

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

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

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

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

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

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The companion guide gives an in-depth analysis of this particular translation.

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A celestial object that is associated with another.

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A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.

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a companion of the Bath

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A fellow; a rogue.

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

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To qualify as a companion; to make equal.

She gave her companion an angry glance.

He sensed the entrance of another before his companion spoke.

The countess was sitting with her companion Belova, playing grand- patience as usual, when Pierre and Natasha came into the drawing room with parcels under their arms.

His gaze settled on Jade's familiar features, and he studied his companion of so many years.

He then sat at the table, helping himself and his companion to the assorted pastries.

Alex was a delightful companion.

The companion cells are cut off from the same cells as those which unite to form the sieve tube.

Crete, like several other large islands, enjoys immunity from dangerous serpents - a privilege ascribed by popular belief to the intercession of Titus, the companion of St Paul, who according to tradition was the first bishop of the island, and became in consequence its patron saint.

Pelageya interrupted her companion; she evidently wished to tell what she had seen.

Dolokhov remarked that the Cossacks were a danger only to stragglers such as his companion and himself, "but probably they would not dare to attack large detachments?" he added inquiringly.

The deaf person with sight looks at the fingers of his companion, but it is also possible to feel them.

But the abbe, though he evidently enjoyed the beauty of his companion, was absorbed in his mastery of the matter.

She'd been quiet for a day or two, going everywhere with him, a companion in his head who was beyond the touch of his angry master.

She'd proven how willing she was to become his companion, a surprise considering she really did seem fragile in his world.

In 1771 he took holy orders, and afterwards visited many parts of Europe as tutor and travelling companion to various noblemen and gentlemen.

According to Callimachus (Hymn to Diana, 190), she was a nymph, the daughter of Zeus and Carme, and a favourite companion of Artemis.

The choices are endless, making this form of dining great for a large group or a special night out with your companion.

Belle, our dog, my other companion, was old and lazy and liked to sleep by the open fire rather than to romp with me.

Just then the lady companion who lived with Helene came in to announce that His Highness was in the ballroom and wished to see her.

As the wheels rolled softly over the straw beneath the windows, Anna Mikhaylovna, having turned with words of comfort to her companion, realized that he was asleep in his corner and woke him up.

In a sleigh drawn by two gray trotting-horses that were bespattering the dashboard with snow, Anatole and his constant companion Makarin dashed past.

He fought by his side in the war against the giants and was his companion in his travels and adventures.

Companion cells are not found in the Pteridophyta and Gymnosperms. In the latter their place is taken by certain cells of the medullary rays and bast parenchyma.

He was a very agreeable companion and a thorough man of the world, singularly free from arrogance and pomposity; owing to his small stature, he was often known as "die kleine Excellenz."

Sometimes I had a companion in my fishing, who came through the village to my house from the other side of the town, and the catching of the dinner was as much a social exercise as the eating of it.

This was Speranski, Secretary of State, reporter to the Emperor and his companion at Erfurt, where he had more than once met and talked with Napoleon.

On seeing the young master, the elder one with frightened look clutched her younger companion by the hand and hid with her behind a birch tree, not stopping to pick up some green plums they had dropped.

I'm sorry I've been such a poor companion.

I figured I'd open the door and then pawn her off as a companion to someone in the government.

He is the constant companion of Dionysus, whom he was said to have instructed in the cultivation of the vine and the keeping of bees.

Fowler (1903); De Morgan, Companion to the Almanac (1845); De Moleon, Voyages liturgiques (Paris, 1718).

Again the princess glanced round at her companion with even more uneasiness in her manner and was about to add something, but Pierre interrupted her.

Yet, he'd refused her offer to become his companion.

The first volume of a Histoire naturelle des perroquets, a companion work by the same author, appeared in the same year, and is truly a monograph, since the parrots constitute a family of birds so naturally severed from all others that there has rarely been anything else confounded with them.

If she knew I was hiring you as a companion, she'd be embarrassed.

He probably ate out all the time, and had a female companion to look after as well.

The USB Massage Ball is the perfect desktop companion for use at home or the office.

He raised his companion and said something, pointing to his mouth.

At that table were his mother, his mother's old lady companion Belova, his wife, their three children with their governess and tutor, his wife's nephew with his tutor, Sonya, Denisov, Natasha, her three children, their governess, and old Michael Ivanovich, the late prince's architect, who was living on in retirement at Bald Hills.

Shipton's traveling companion, Penelope Something, hysterically filled in what little she knew to Jake Weller and Emile Corday, both of whom visited the patient at the hospital.

It was part of the reason why he'd turned her down as a companion.

As Dean shut off the engine he turned to his companion.

Who would have guessed that a seven-year-old would make such a great companion?

This was wild country, but she had a right to ride it, with or without a companion, as he was now.

Here she was, thinking about a complete stranger as a companion.

During the campaign he met his wife, Anita, who became his inseparable companion and mother of three children, Anita, Ricciotti and Menotti.

Among his companions on his voyage round the Cape were the Baron Imhoff, a speculative portrait-painter, and his wife, a lady of some personal attractions and great social charm, who was destined henceforth to be Hastings's lifelong companion.

Henry meanwhile, however, had sent William Knight, his secretary, on a separate mission to Rome to obtain facilities for his marriage with Anne; and on the cardinal's return in August he found her installed as the king's companion and proposed successor to Catherine of Aragon.

His early friend and school companion, Adelmann, archdeacon of Liege, wrote to him letters of expostulation on the subject of this report in 1046 and 1048; and a bishop, Hugo of Langres, wrote (about 1049) a refutation of the views which he had himself heard Berengar express in conversation.

He had already gained a reputation in his narrow circle as a keen debater and a jovial companion, and it is said that he had several smuggling adventures.