COMPANION

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companion I. substantiv

1. tovarăş, asociat, partener.

2. însoţitor, companion; tovarăş de drum, vecin întâmplător în vagon etc.;

Lady companion doamnă / damă de companie.

3. complice, părtaş;

companion in crime complice la crimă.

4. (de obicei dispreţuitor) ins, individ, om, persoană;

a poor companion persoană neinteresantă / plictisitoare.

5. cavaler al unui ordin (de grad inferior).

6. pereche, obiect formând o pereche.

7. (mar.) cabină de punte.

8. (mar.) scară de tambuchiu.

◊ (înv.) free companion mercenar, soldat plătit.

companion II. verb tranzitiv

a însoţi, a întovărşi, a acompania, a fi însoţitor / tovarăş de drum (cu gen.).

My companion will be of the same nature as myself and will be content with the same fare.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I had hoped to have no other companion than Agnes.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The voice of my companion brought me back to myself with a laugh.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

He looked across at my companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question was already answered.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then I climbed down to my companions waiting for me so eagerly at the bottom of the great tree.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No; I want only one companion this morning, and that must be you.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

He had killed this god's dog, bitten his companion god, and what else was to be expected than some terrible punishment?

(White Fang, de Jack London)

I was much more struck by the appearance of his companion.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After a while the cook said to him: “It is not well for you to be so alone, wish for a pretty girl as a companion.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

All this time Dorothy and her companions had been walking through the thick woods.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)