Friend vs. Companion

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Friendnoun

A person other than a family member, spouse or lover whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.

Friendnoun

A boyfriend or girlfriend.

Friendnoun

An associate who provides assistance.

Friendnoun

A person with whom one is vaguely or indirectly acquainted

Friendnoun

A person who backs or supports something.

Friendnoun

(informal) An object or idea that can be used for good.

Friendnoun

Used as a form of address when warning someone.

Friendnoun

(object-oriented programming) A function or class granted special access to the private and protected members of another class.

Friendnoun

(climbing) A spring-loaded camming device.

Friendnoun

(obsolete) A paramour of either sex.

Friendverb

To act as a friend to, to befriend; to be friendly to, to help.

Friendverb

(transitive) To add (a person) to a list of friends on a social networking site; to officially designate (someone) as a friend.

Friendnoun

One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society and welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate associate; sometimes, an attendant.

Friendnoun

One not inimical or hostile; one not a foe or enemy; also, one of the same nation, party, kin, etc., whose friendly feelings may be assumed. The word is some times used as a term of friendly address.

Friendnoun

One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution.

Friendnoun

One of a religious sect characterized by disuse of outward rites and an ordained ministry, by simplicity of dress and speech, and esp. by opposition to war and a desire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers.

Friendnoun

A paramour of either sex.

Friendverb

To act as the friend of; to favor; to countenance; to befriend.

Friendnoun

a person you know well and regard with affection and trust;

Friendnoun

an associate who provides assistance;

Friendnoun

a person with whom you are acquainted;

Friendnoun

a person who backs a politician or a team etc.;

Friendnoun

a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)

Companionnoun

A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company

Companionnoun

(dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another.

Companionnoun

(nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.

Companionnoun

(nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.

Companionnoun

(topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.

Companionnoun

(figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.

Companionnoun

(attributive) An appended source of media or information, designed to be used in conjunction with and to enhance the main material.

Companionnoun

(astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.

Companionnoun

A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.

Companionnoun

A fellow; a rogue.

Companionverb

(obsolete) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.

Companionverb

(obsolete) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.

Companionnoun

One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; a comrade; a consort; a partner.

Companionnoun

A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.

Companionnoun

A fellow; - in contempt.

Companionnoun

A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.

Companionverb

To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.

Companionverb

To qualify as a companion; to make equal.

Companionnoun

a person who is frequently in the company of another;