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Definition: Companionable |
CompanionableAdjective1. Suggestive of companionship; "a companionable pet". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "companionable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonym: CompanionableSynonym: social. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sociality | Adjective: sociable, companionable, clubbable, conversable, cosy, cosey, chatty, conversational; homiletical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Companionable |
| English words defined with "companionable": Companable, Companiable ♦ Fellowlike ♦ Good fellow ♦ Insociable ♦ Sociable bird, Sociable weaver ♦ The social evil. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "companionable": FLY. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "companionable": Fellowlike. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Henry David Thoreau | I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FLY-:SPECK:, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the various literary nations depended originally upon the social habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several countries. These creatures, which have always been distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of, the writer's powers. The "old masters" of literature -- that is to say, the early writers whose work is so esteemed by later scribes and critics in the same language -- never punctuated at all, but worked right along free-handed, without that abruption of the thought which comes from the use of points. (We observe the same thing in children to-day, whose usage in this particular is a striking and beautiful instance of the law that the infancy of individuals reproduces the methods and stages of development characterizing the infancy of races.) In the work of these primitive scribes all the punctuation is found, by the modern investigator with his optical instruments and chemical tests, to have been inserted by the writers' ingenious and serviceable collaborator, the common house-fly -- Musca maledicta. In transcribing these ancient MSS, for the purpose of either making the work their own or preserving what they naturally regard as divine revelations, later writers reverently and accurately copy whatever marks they find upon the papyrus or parchment, to the unspeakable enhancement of the lucidity of the thought and value of the work. Writers contemporary with the copyists naturally avail themselves of the obvious advantages of these marks in their own work, and with such assistance as the flies of their own household may be willing to grant, frequently rival and sometimes surpass the older compositions, in respect at least of punctuation, which is no small glory. Fully to understand the important services that flies perform to literature it is only necessary to lay a page of some popular novelist alongside a saucer of cream-and-molasses in a sunny room and observe "how the wit brightens and the style refines" in accurate proportion to the duration of exposure. |
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| "Companionable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Companionable" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 61 | 43,149 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "companionable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i shoqërueshëm (communicative, gregarious, Matey, maty, pally, sociable), i afrueshëm (communicative, Matey). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | أنيس (affable, genial, gregarious, sociable, social), ظريف (amiable, amicable, amusing, fine, flowing, gallant, humorist, humorous, humourist, jolly, likeable, nice, obliging, pet, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, quaint, stylish, witty, wry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разговорлив (conversational), приятен (acceptable, agreeable, cheerful, clever, cozy, darling, easy, engaging, enjoyable, good, gracious, grateful, groovy, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, likely, luscious, merry, musical, nice, nice-looking, not unwelcome, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, refreshing, rose colored, rose coloured, sapid, satisfying, savoury, soft, sweet, sympathetic, toothsome, welcome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | družný (clubbable, convivial, gregarious, sociable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | قابل معاشرت (Livable, Sociable), شایسته رفاقت . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | toverillinen (comradely, matey), seurallinen (for company, sociable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sympathique (congenial), agréable (congenial, courteous, courtly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kameradschaftlich (companionate, comradely, Matey), umgänglich (affable, friendly, obliging, pleasant-natured, sociable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοινωνικόσ (folksy, sociable, social), γλυκομίλητοσ (afatable, sleek, soft spoken, well spoken). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | barátkozó (folksy, matey, pally, sociable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | peramah (backslapper, humane, warm-hearted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | socievole (chummily, conversable, genial, gregarious, sociable, sociably, social). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 同志的 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | どうしてき. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheshaghtagh (accompanist, gregariousness), cooidjaghtagh (companion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ompanionablecay sociável (chummy, clubbable, conversable, livable, liveable, manageable, neighborly, neighbourly, sociable). (various references) sociabil (clubby, communicative, conversable, convivial, gregarious, jovial, liveable, neighborly, neighbourly, sociable, social), prietenos (amicable, blandly, cheerful, clubby, cordial, friendly, kind, kindly, Matey, mellow, mild, mildly, nice, pally, sweet). (various references) общительный (associative, chummy, clubbable, communicable, communicative, conversable, gregarious, jovial, maty, pally, sociable). (various references) prijatan za druženje. (various references) sociable (chummily, clubbable, sociable, sociably, social). (various references) trevlig (agreeable, cheerful, cute, enjoyable, fun, genial, good, homy, jolly, lovely, nice, pleasant), sällskaplig (convivial, gregarious, outgoing, sociable, social). (various references) candan (bluff, candid, cordial, cordially, deep-felt, genially, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, hearty, open armed, open-hearted, personable, sincere, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, whole-hearted, willing, with open arms), samimi (candid, childlike, chummy, cordial, devout, earnest, familiar, folksy, forthright, Frank, free, freehearted, friendly, genuine, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, intimate, jannock, near, on the square, open armed, openhearted, outspoken, pally, sincere, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, truthful, undesigning, unequivocal, warm, whole-hearted), girişken (aggressive, clubable, clubbable, clubby, enterprising, full of pep, pushful, pushing, sociable, up and coming), arkadaş canlısı (friendly, sociable). (various references) товариський (associative, clubbable, communicative, comradely, convivial, jovial, neighborly, neighbourly, pally, sociable), привітний (affable, amiable, communicable, courteous, hospitable, neighborly, neighbourly). (various references) dễ l m bạn, dễ kết bạn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "companionable": companionableness, companionablenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "companionable" (pronounced 'Com*pan"ion*a*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-l-m-n-n-o-o-p" | |
-4 letters: campanile, cobalamin, companion, imbalance, incapable, monocline, monoplane, nonmobile, nonpolice, policeman. | |
-5 letters: alopecia, ambiance, amicable, anabolic, analcime, anconeal, binnacle, bioclean, calamine, cannibal, coinable, complain, compline, manciple, melanian, monecian, napoleon, nobleman, palomino, picomole, pinnacle, placeman. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-l-m-n-n-o-o-p" | |
+4 letters: companionableness. | |
+5 letters: companionabilities, noncomparabilities. | |
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