COMPANIONSHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does companionship mean? 

• COMPANIONSHIP (noun)
  The noun COMPANIONSHIP has 1 sense:

1. the state of being with someone

  Familiarity information: COMPANIONSHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPANIONSHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of being with someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

companionship; company; fellowship; society

Context example:

he enjoyed the society of his friends

Hypernyms ("companionship" is a kind of...):

friendly relationship; friendship (the state of being friends (or friendly))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "companionship"):

freemasonry (a natural or instinctive fellowship between people of similar interests)

Derivation:

companion (a friend who is frequently in the company of another)

companion (a traveler who accompanies you)

 Context examples 

The state of feeling sad or dejected as a result of lack of companionship or being separated from others.

(Loneliness, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

On the other hand, he was human, and his gregarious need for companionship remained unsatisfied.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Pets can add fun, companionship and a feeling of safety to your life.

(Pet Health, NIH)

In doing this they had protected both themselves and the gods whose companionship they shared.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“But to bring you so far,” I returned, “and to separate, seems bad companionship, Steerforth.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Thus we find such modern creatures as the tapir—an animal with quite a respectable length of pedigree—the great deer, and the ant-eater in the companionship of reptilian forms of jurassic type.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Lonely watches, and a discipline which cut them off from all companionship, had left their mark upon those Red Indian faces.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With the delightful enthusiasm of youth, they took the solitary boy into their midst and made much of him, and he found something very charming in the innocent companionship of these simple-hearted girls.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)