companionnoun [ C ]
uk/kəmˈpæn.jən/us/kəmˈpæn.jən/companion noun [ C ] (PERSON)
B2 a person you spend a lot of time with often because you are friends or because you are travelling together:
in the past, a young woman who was paid to care for and provide friendship for an old or ill woman, especially while she was travelling
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- She went travelling with a female companion.
- Mabel will be a good companion for my mother.
- He was hired to act as Gerald's companion.
- He has been her constant companion for over 50 years.
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Friends, acquaintances & contemporaries
- a friend in need is a friend indeed idiom
- acquaintance
- acquainted
- amigo
- bedmate
- comrade
- escort
- flatmate
- friendless
- gang
- girl
- girlfriend
- intimate 1
- neighbour
- peer
- peer group
- pen pal
- penfriend
- playmate
- posse
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companion noun [ C ] (OBJECT)
old-fashioned either of two matching objects:
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Numbers: groups of things according to number
- baker's dozen
- brace
- couple
- dozen
- dyad
- gross
- pair
- score
- triad
- trinity
- trio
- twosome
companion noun [ C ] (BOOK)
used in the title of a type of book that gives you information on a particular subject or tells you how to do something:
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Books: kinds of books
- abridge
- annual
- anthology
- audiobook
- autobiography
- backlist
- bestiary
- crammer
- digest
- e-reader
- exercise book
- fiction
- flipback
- glossy
- novelette
- novella
- page-turner
- paperback
- photo album
- travelogue
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