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Companion vs Aquaintance - What's the difference?

companion | aquaintance |

As nouns the difference between companion and aquaintance

is that companion is a friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company while aquaintance is .

As a verb companion

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

companion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
    • His dog has been his trusted companion for the last five years.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Here are your sons again; and I must lose / Two of the sweetest companions in the world.
  • (dated) A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
  • (nautical) The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below.
  • (nautical) The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves.
  • (topology) A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk.
  • (figuratively) A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person.
  • (astronomy) A celestial object that is associated with another.
  • A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders.
    • a companion of the Bath
  • (obsolete, derogatory) A fellow; a rogue.
  • * 1599 , , III. i. 111:
    • and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald, scurvy, / cogging companion ,

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * companionable, uncompanionable * companion hatch * companion ladder * companionship * companionway

    Related terms

    * accompany, accompanying * company

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.
    • (Ruskin)
  • (obsolete) To qualify as a companion; to make equal.
  • * (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)
    • Companion me with my mistress.

    aquaintance

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1560, author=Peter Whitehorne, title=Machiavelli, Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And you must consider that this auctoritie, is gotten either by nature, or by accidente: and as to nature, it behoveth to provide, that he which is boren in one place, be not apoincted to the men billed in the same, but be made hedde of those places, where he hath not any naturall aquaintance . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1614, author=Sir Thomas Overbury, title=Character Writings of the 17th Century, chapter=Characters, year_published=1891 citation
    • , passage=He entereth young men into aquaintance with debt-books. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1886, author=, title=The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Yet in the Ignatian letters there is not the faintest aquaintance with the man or his teaching. }}