companion
- Noun. A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company.
- 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. (astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.
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