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Companion vs Yokefellow - What's the difference?

companion | yokefellow |

As nouns the difference between companion and yokefellow

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

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.

    yokefellow

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A companion.
  • * 1882 , Edward Augustus Freeman, The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First?
    • ...till new grounds of quarrel had arisen between the two unequal yokefellows who were at last fully coupled together.
  • * 1922 , James Ezra Darby, Jesus, an economic mediator: God's remedy for industrial and international ills
    • Brain and hand, and means and muscle, are true yokefellows in modern industrialism. Without the inventor, there could be no machinery...
  • * 1999 , David E Garland, Reading Matthew: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the First Gospel?
    • Jesus treats his disciples as yokefellows rather than as camels and donkeys to be loaded down (23:4).