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Companion vs Chaperon - What's the difference?

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Companion is a related term of chaperon.


As nouns the difference between companion and chaperon

is that companion is a friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company while chaperon is an adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior.

As verbs the difference between companion and chaperon

is that companion is (obsolete) to be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany while chaperon is to accompany, to escort.

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.

    chaperon

    English

    (wikipedia chaperon)

    Alternative forms

    * chaperone

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An adult who accompanies or supervises one or more young, unmarried men or women during social occasions, usually with the specific intent of preventing some types of social or sexual interactions or illegal behavior.
  • A hood, especially, an ornamental or official hood.
  • * Howell
    • His head and face covered with a chaperon , out of which there are but two holes to look through.
  • A device placed on the foreheads of horses which draw the hearse in pompous funerals.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to accompany, to escort
  • to mother

    • Anagrams

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