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COMPANIONSHIP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being with someone
Example:
he enjoyed the society of his friends
Synonyms:
companionship; company; fellowship; society
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("companionship" is a kind of...):
friendly relationship; friendship (the state of being friends (or friendly))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "companionship"):
freemasonry (a natural or instinctive fellowship between people of similar interests)
Derivation:
companion (a friend who is frequently in the company of another)
companion (a traveler who accompanies you)
Context examples:
His unexpected accession to title and fortune had removed all his difficulties; and never had the general loved his daughter so well in all her hours of companionship, utility, and patient endurance as when he first hailed her Your Ladyship!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
It was, perhaps, the mere animal heat of food to hungry people—for none of us had eaten anything since breakfast—or the sense of companionship may have helped us; but anyhow we were all less miserable, and saw the morrow as not altogether without hope.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
As the steam beer had tasted raw, so their companionship seemed raw to him.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I have never believed it possible that any natural or improved ability can claim immunity from the companionship of the steady, plain, hard-working qualities, and hope to gain its end.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Yet I could not live alone; so I tried the companionship of mistresses.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I felt as if I were placed under a ban—as if I had no right to claim their sympathies—as if never more might I enjoy companionship with them.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A companionship did exist between White Fang and the other dogs, but it was one of warfare and enmity.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
"We are women together," she repeated, as they went out of the room, their arms around each other's waists, their hearts swelling with a new sense of companionship.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Mr. Dick, who had been with me to Highgate twice already, and had resumed his companionship with the Doctor, I took with me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
