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Definition: Companionship |
CompanionshipNoun1. The state of being with someone; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "companionship" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: CompanionshipSynonyms: company (n), fellowship (n), society (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accompaniment | Coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship; partnership, copartnership; coefficiency. |
Sociality | Noun: sociality, sociability, sociableness; Adjective: social intercourse; consociation; intercourse, intercommunity; consortship, companionship, comradeship; clubbism; esprit de corps. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Companionship |
| English words defined with "companionship": alone ♦ Clicker, companionable, Consociation, Consortable, Consortion, Contubernial ♦ gadabout, Good-fellowship ♦ lone, lonely ♦ pet ♦ sociable, social, solitary ♦ unsociability, unsociable, unsociableness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "companionship": Age, Anecdote, Animals, Domestic ♦ Cocktail, Comic Songs ♦ Itch ♦ Library, Lyre ♦ Musical Instruments ♦ Pictures ♦ Rowboat ♦ Stockings ♦ Watch ♦ Zeruiah. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "companionship": Consortable. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | If you're looking for female companionship, we can make arrangements that'll insure total privacy and-- (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) Thank you for your companionship, for your stamina, your horse sense, and a hundred and one laughs (Norma Rae; writing credit: Harriet Frank Jr.; Irving Ravetch) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Henry Brooks Adams | Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. |
Lew Wallace | When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He had known neither the pleasure of companionship with others nor the vigour of rude male health nor filial piety |
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| "Companionship" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Companionship" is used about 263 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 263 | 18,193 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "companionship": companionship-seeking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
companionship | 204 |
female companionship | 4 |
companionship dating | 2 |
companionship ukrainian vip | 2 |
companionship quote | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "companionship"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shoqëri (association, company, comradeship, consortium, crowd, entourage, fellowship, gang, guild, life, society, tendance, world), marrëdhënie (connection, connexion, intercourse, link, rapport, relation, relationship, term). (various references) | |
Arabic | مصادقة (association, comradeship), عشرة (decade, familiarization, ten), رفقة (fellowship). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | компания (bunch, circle, company, crowd, lot, party, push, set, society, tribe, troop), общуване (association, communication, communion, connection, conversation, converse, fraternization, intercommunication, intercourse, society, touch), дружба (fellowship, friendship, good fellowship). (various references) | |
Chinese | 陪伴, 友誼 (fellowship, friendship). (various references) | |
Czech | spoleènost (association, community, company, corporation, incorporation, league, partnership, party, set, society, world), přátelství (comradeship, fellowship, friendship). (various references) | |
Farsi | یاری (Aid, Help), پهلونشینی , مصاحبت , همراهی (Camaraderie). (various references) | |
Finnish | toveruus (comradeship, fellowship). (various references) | |
French | coopératif (co op, collective, cooperating, cooperative, cooperator), camaraderie (comradeship). (various references) | |
German | gesellschaft (academy, assn, association, bunch, circle, club, company, corporation, crowd, fellowship, function, group of people, guests, house party, limited partnership, line, pack, party, reception, society), Genossenschaft (association, co operative). (various references) | |
Greek | συντροφιά (bevy, camaraderie, circle, company, coterie, fellow ship, partnership, partship, society). (various references) | |
Hebrew | חברות (camaraderie, friendship), רעות (comradeship, friendship, neighborliness, neighbourliness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | társaság (band, bunch, circle, co., company, consort, fellowship, firm, nest, number, partnership, party, society, tribe), baráti kapcsolat. (various references) | |
Italian | cooperativa (cooperative), compagnia (academy, bevy, circle, club, company, corporation, crowd, fellowship, gang, gathering, group, lot, party, society, squad), amicizia (amity, fellowship, friendship, goodwill). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 友交 (amity, friendship). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゆう"う (amity, availability, effectiveness, fragrance, friendship, merit, validity, wander). (various references) | |
Korean | 교우 관계. (various references) | |
Manx | cooidjaghtys (togetherness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ompanionshipcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | companhia (association, company, corporation, crowd, fellowship, firm, gang, pension, squad, troop, troupe), camaradagem (camaraderie, comradeship, fellowship). (various references) | |
Romanian | convieţuire (cohabitation), companie (company, crowd, group, partnership, presence, society), camaraderie (camaraderie, comradeship, fellowship), tovãrãşie (cahoot, company, comradeship, fellowship, friendship, partnership, society), societate (association, circle, club, community, company, Covey, crowd, firm, guild, institute, presence, society, world). (various references) | |
Russian | товарищеские отношения (comradeship), компания (bunch, company, crowd, fellowship, gang, horde, party, steelmaker), звание кавалера ордена, дружеское общение (consuetude). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | drugarstvo (camaraderie, comradeship, fellowship, friendship, good fellowship). (various references) | |
Spanish | compañerismo (camaraderie, fellowship). (various references) | |
Swedish | kamratskap (camaraderie, comradeship, fellowship). (various references) | |
Turkish | yoldaşlık (camaraderie), refakât (accompaniment, escort, waiting), eşlik (accompaniment, attendance, company, convoy, equality, waiting), arkadaşlık (amity, association, camaraderie, company, comradeship, fellowship, friendliness, friendship, good fellowship). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | товаришування (camaraderie, comradeship). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tình bạn (amity, camaraderie, comradeship, fellowship, friendship). (various references) | |
Welsh | cwmni%aeth. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | congressus, sodalitas. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | airyama, haxma. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "companionship": companionships. (additional references) | |
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"Companionship" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: companionshiop. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "companionship" (pronounced kumpa"nyunshi'p) |
| 5 | -u n sh i' p | bipartisanship, brinkmanship, brinksmanship, chairmanship, championship, citizenship, craftsmanship, draftsmanship, gamesmanship, guardianship, horsemanship, interrelationship, marksmanship, musicianship, partisanship, relationship, salesmanship, showmanship, sportsmanship, statesmanship, upmanship, workmanship. |
| 4 | -n sh i' p | gunship, internship, kinship, township. |
| 3 | -sh i' p | airship, ambassadorship, apprenticeship, authorship, battleship, censorship, conservatorship, consulship, dealership, dictatorship, directorship, distributorship, editorship, entrepreneurship, fellowship, flagship, friendship, generalship, governorship, hardship, headship, judgeship, kingship, leadership, Lightship, membership, ownership, partnership, premiership, professorship, proprietorship, readership, receivership, ridership, scholarship, spaceship, speakership, sponsorship, starship, steamship, stewardship, trusteeship, viewership, warship. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-i-m-n-n-o-o-p-p-s" | |
-3 letters: companions. | |
-4 letters: champions, cioppinos, companion, hominians, insomniac. | |
-5 letters: amnionic, aphonics, campions, champion, cioppino, hominian, insomnia, isonomic, nonohmic, opinions, pompanos, simoniac, siphonic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-i-m-n-n-o-o-p-p-s" | |
+1 letter: companionships. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Bibliography |
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