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KEEP COMPANY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does keep company mean?
• KEEP COMPANY (verb)
The verb KEEP COMPANY has 1 sense:
1. be a companion to somebody
Familiarity information: KEEP COMPANY used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Be a companion to somebody
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
accompany; companion; company; keep company
Hypernyms (to "keep company" is one way to...):
affiliate; associate; assort; consort (keep company with; hang out with)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Context examples
Well now, I tell you, I'm not a boasting man, and you seen yourself how easy I keep company, but when I was quartermaster, LAMBS wasn't the word for Flint's old buccaneers.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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