Usually means: Friend who provides support, companionship.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word companion:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. companion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Companion, companion, companion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. companion, companion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. companion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. companion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Companion, companion: Wordnik
  7. companion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. companion: Wiktionary
  9. companion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. companion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. companion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Companion, companion: Dictionary.com
  13. companion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. companion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Companion (Doctor Who), Companion (caregiving), Companion, The Companion (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Companion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. companion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. companion: Rhymezone
  19. companion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. companion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. companion: Free Dictionary
  22. companion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. companion: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. companion: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. companion: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  3. Companion (disambiguation), companion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Companion (disambiguation), companion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Companion (disambiguation), companion: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. companion: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See companioning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies
noun:  (dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
noun:  (nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
noun:  (nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
noun:  (topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
noun:  (figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
noun:  (attributive) An appended source of media or information, designed to be used in conjunction with and to enhance the main material.
noun:  (astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.
noun:  A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.
noun:  (obsolete, derogatory) A fellow; a rogue.
verb:  (obsolete) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
verb:  (obsolete) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.

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