Companion Definition

kəm-pănyən

companions

noun

companions

A person who associates with or accompanies another or others; associate; comrade.

Webster's New World

A domestic partner.

American Heritage

A person employed to live or travel with another.

Webster's New World

Either of two persons not married to each other but otherwise in an intimate, spouse-like relationship: often, specif., used when the persons are of the same sex.

Webster's New World

A member of the lowest rank in an order of knighthood.

Webster's New World

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verb

companions

To accompany.

Webster's New World

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

Wiktionary

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Other Word Forms of Companion

Noun

Singular:

companion

Plural:

companions

Origin of Companion

From Middle English companion, from Old French compaignon (“companion”) (modern French compagnon), from Late Latin compāniōn- (nominative singular compāniō, whence French copain), from com- +‎ pānis (literally, with + bread), a word first attested in the Frankish Lex Salica as a translation of a Germanic word, probably Frankish *galaibo, *gahlaibo (“messmate”, literally “with-bread”), from *hlaib (“loaf, bread”). Compare also Old High German galeipo (“messmate”), Gothic (gahlaiba, “messmate”), Old Armenian ընկեր (ənker, “friend”, literally “messmate”). More at co-, loaf.

From Wiktionary
Middle English compaignyon from Old French compaignon from Vulgar Latin compāniō *compāniōn- Latin com- com- Latin pānis bread pā- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition