companionとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpænjən/
• ハイフネーション: com‧pan‧ion
• 韻: -ænjən

名詞

companion (複数形 companions)

1. A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies

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

   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene v]:

     Here are your sons again; and I must lose / Two of the sweetest companions in the world.

   • 2017 September 27, David Browne, "Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91," Rolling Stone

     For the most part, Hefner's female companions all adhered to the same mold: twentysomething, bosomy and blonde. "Well, I guess I know what I like," he once said when asked about his preferences.

2. (dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
3. (nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
4. (nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
5. (topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
6. (figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
7. (attributive) An appended source of media or information, designed to be used in conjunction with and to enhance the main material.

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

8. (astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.
9. A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.

   a companion of the Bath

10. (obsolete, derogatory) A fellow; a rogue.
    • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i], line 111:

      and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald, scurvy, / cogging companion,

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:friend

派生語

関連する語

• accompany, accompanying
• company

動詞

companion (三人称単数 現在形 companions, 現在分詞 companioning, 過去形および過去分詞形 companioned)

1. (obsolete) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
   • 1865, John Ruskin, Precious Thoughts

     we had better turn south quickly and compare the elements of education which formed , and of creation which companioned , Salvator .

2. (obsolete) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Companion me with my mistress.