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Company

COMPANY, n.
1. In military affairs, the soldiers united under the command of a captain; a subdivision of a regiment, consisting usually of a number from 60 to 100 men. But the number is indefinite.
2. Any assemblage of persons; a collection of men, or other animals, in a very indefinite sense. It may be applied to a small number, or any multitude whatever; as in scripture we read of a company of priests, a company of prophets, and an innumerable company of angels; also, a company of horses.
3. An assemblage of persons for entertainment or festivity; a party collected by invitation or otherwise.
4. Persons that associate with others for conversation or pleasure; society; as, let your children keep good company.
5. The state of being a companion; the act of accompanying; fellowship; society.
I will keep thee company.
We cannot enjoy the company of licentious men.
6. A number of persons untied for the same purpose, or in a joint concern; as a company of merchants or mechanics; a company of players. The word is applicable to private partnerships or to incorporated bodies of men. Hence it may signify a firm, house or partnership; or a corporation, as the East India Company, a banking or insurance company.
7. The crew of a ship, including the officers; also, a fleet.
To bear company, to accompany; to attend; to go with; denoting a temporary association.
His faithful dog shall bear him company.
To keep company, to accompany; to attend; also, to associate with frequently or habitually; hence, to frequent public houses. Prov 29.
COMPANY, v.t. To accompany; to attend; to go with; to be companion to.
COMPANY, v.i.
1. To associate with; to frequent the company of.
I wrote you not to company with fornicators. 1 Cor 5.
2. To be a gay companion.
3. To have commerce with the other sex.
company appears in definitions for these words:
Absence Absent Accompany Action Actionary Actionist Alcove Alive Alma Alme Alone Along Anticipation Apanthropy Arrangement Arrivance Aside Assault Assembly Associate Associated Associating Association Attend Avoid Band Banding Bank Bank-bill Battulate Bear Besort Bevy Blindly Bonus Break Bring Budge-bachelors Bulletin Buy By Capable Capital Captain Caravan Centuriators Century Ceremony Chair-man Chocolate-house Choice Chorus Circle Circumforanean Club Cohabit Collective Colony Commodore Communicate Companion Companionable Companionship Company Compel Complement Concert Concomitantly Congregation Congression Consent Consort Consorting Consulage Conversant Conversation Conversazione Converse Cornet Corporal Corporalship Corporation Corypheus Countermark Covey Crew Curfew Deacon Decimation Decimator Demand Deny Despicable Dining-room Director Discourse Dispatch Disperse Disreputable Dissociable Dissolute Drabbing Draft Draw Drawing-room Drive Duty Elegance Embryo Encamp Encampment Enliven Ensign Entertain Entertainer Fagot Fair Familiarity Fashion Fashionable Fellow-student Fellow-traveler Fellowship Fire-company Firm First Fleet Flight Flock Follow Forwardness Fraternity Friend Gang Gayety General Genteel Gregariously Grenadier Guild Habitude Heed Herd Hive Homiletic Homily Hord Imbody Improperly Incivility Inconsistent Incorporate Indecorous Infantry Insinuation Institution Insurance Insure Interesting Introduction Intrude Intrusion Invitation Invite Inviting Joint Jolliness Jolly Junior Keep Legion Library Lick Lieutenant Liveryman Lone Loneliness Lonely Loose Loss Loth Love Lutanist Manner Mask Meet Mess Might Mirth Mix Mixing Mode Monopoly Muster-roll Nauseousness Navy Oblige Obtrude Open Orderly Other Owned Parlor Partner Partnership Party Passy-measure Pay-bill Pensionary Pick Pleasant Policy Prelection Prepare Presence Presence-chamber Present President Prettily Privacy Private Privately Privateness Privilege Privy Proportion Prudentials Public Put Ranging Recess Redeem Register Regulation Rendezvous Represent Reprieve Resolved Respectable Retire Retirement Retreat Ridotto Roar Round Rout Rush Scrip Seclude Secrecy Secretary Select Sergeant Shareholder Shine Shun Sneak Sociable Sociableness Society Solitarily Solitariness Solitary Sorry Sort Spill Spoil Squad Squirrel Standard-bearer Station-bill Statute Steal Step Still Stipulate Stock Stray Strong Suit Symposiac Taint Tax Taxation Territory Tithing To Together Trading Train Train-band Troop Unalloyed Unappropriated Undisturbed Uniform Unlocated Vexillation Wagel Wassail-cup Welcome Wench Whelm Whiffler Whisper With Withdraw Worship Yawn

 

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