Companion may refer to:
- A friend or acquaintance you associate yourself with
- Companion (caregiving), a nurse assistant or similar professional who assists a patient one-on-one
- Companion (ship), an architectural feature of ships
- Companion animal, a pet animal kept for companionship
- Companion parrot, a pet parrot that interacts with its owner
- Companion matrix, a matrix with a specific relation to its characteristic polynomial p
- Companion star, a star in a binary star system
- Companion weapon, an object held in the non-sword hand while fencing
- Muhammad's companions, the Sahaba
- Companion cavalry, Alexander the Great's elite cavalry
- Foot Companion, the primary type of soldier in Alexander the Great's army
- Lady's companion, a genteel woman who acted as a companion for woman of rank or wealth
- Sober companion, an addiction treatment coach
- Companion planting, planting of different crops in close physical proximity
- A handbook or guide book or compendium e.g. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion or The Oxford Companion to Music
- A member of a Holy Royal Arch chapter
- A domestic partner
- A concubine
- An intelligent conversational agent as in the Companions Project
- An companion in the Islamic religion: Sahabah
Famous quotes containing the word companion:
“One who was my companion in my two previous excursions to these woods, tells me that ... he found himself dining one day on moose-meat, mud turtle, trout, and beaver, and he thought that there were few places in the world where these dishes could easily be brought together on one table.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In today’s world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither time nor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions of parenthood, and which prevent the parent from doing things he wants to do as a guide, friend, and companion to his children.”
—Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917)
“Only by being guilty of Folly does mortal man in many cases arrive at the perception of Sense. A thought which should forever free us from hasty imprecations upon our ever-recurring intervals of Folly; since though Folly be our teacher, Sense is the lesson she teaches; since, if Folly wholly depart from us, Further Sense will be her companion in the flight, and we will be left standing midway in wisdom.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)