Companion vs Paramour - What's the difference?
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A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company
* Shakespeare
(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.
(obsolete, derogatory) A fellow; a rogue.
* 1599 , , III. i. 111:
*Chaucer
*:For par amour I loved her first ere thou.
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*:Is this trouthe said Palomydes / Thenne shall we hastely here of sire Tristram / And as for to say that I loue la Beale Isoud peramours I dare make good that I doo / and that she hath my seruyse aboue alle other ladyes / and shalle haue the terme of my lyf
An illicit lover, either male or female.
* (rfdate), Macaulay:
As nouns the difference between companion and paramour
is that companion is a friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company while paramour is an illicit lover, either male or female.As a verb companion
is to be a companion to; to attend on; to accompany.As an adverb paramour is
passionately, out of sexual desire; devotedly.companion
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Noun
(en noun)- His dog has been his trusted companion for the last five years.
- Here are your sons again; and I must lose / Two of the sweetest companions in the world.
- a companion of the Bath
- and let us knog our / prains together to be revenge on this same scald, scurvy, / cogging companion ,
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* companionable, uncompanionable * companion hatch * companion ladder * companionship * companionwayparamour
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Alternative forms
* paramoursAdverb
(-)Noun
(en noun)- The seducer appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his paramour .