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Companion vs Playfellow - What's the difference?

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Companion is a related term of playfellow.


In dated|lang=en terms the difference between companion and playfellow

is that companion is (dated) a person employed to accompany or travel with another while playfellow is (dated) playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with.

As nouns the difference between companion and playfellow

is that companion is a friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or keeps company while playfellow is (dated) playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with.

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.

    playfellow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • "I’ve brought you a new playfellow ," the Fairy said. "You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbitland, for he is going to live with you for ever and ever!"
  • * 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
    • Now she was within ten feet of the two unsuspecting little playfellows --carefully she drew her hind feet well up beneath her body, the great muscles rolling under the beautiful skin.