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:
“I would not wish
Any companion in the world but you.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I believe it is the conviction of the purest men, that the net amount of man and man does not much vary. Each is incomparably superior to his companion in some faculty. His want of skill in other directions, has added to his fitness for his own work.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“My companion and I, having a minute’s discussion on some point of ancient history, were amused by the attitude which the Indian, who could not tell what we were talking about, assumed. He constituted himself umpire, and, judging by our air and gesture, he very seriously remarked from time to time, “you beat,” or “he beat.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)