noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
boon companion
drinking companion/buddy/partner etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
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This was the man whom Anselm chose as his closest companion on the strength of a meeting thirteen years earlier.
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Ingrid, her close friend and companion , knew that was only the outward achievement.
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Second, his indifference to business proficiency as a qualification for his closest companions .
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Take comfort in close companions who are really supportive and ready to listen.
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He had lost another close companion , another friend, one who had helped and guided him and given him such pleasure.
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This month, a close companion will try to push you into something unappealing.
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Therefore, in spite of arguments from certain relatives, partners or close companions , you must go where fortune beckons.
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But the Jaguthin who became my close companions were summoned at night, during the full moon.
constant
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Lets hope Community Care will be a constant companion and source of support to Thompson in the future.
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He was always in charge of the evening, and Mike became his most constant drinking companion .
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His responsibilities and favours escalated and he was soon her personal attendant and constant companion .
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Make soap and hot water your constant kitchen companions .
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Poor, beautiful Johnny ... As the next day or two dragged by, fear became Cassie's almost constant companion .
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I hardly ever see a fish so large anymore, which were my constant companions when I began diving.
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They became constant companions and Corbett often found them playing cat's-cradle in some comer or window embrasure.
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Adolescent Egocentrism Egocentrism is a constant companion of cognitive development.
female
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Men could and did eat sandwiches while their female companions ate nothing.
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None the less, park officials are giving some thought to providing a female companion for the albino alligator, Boyer said.
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First, the male - female bonding is weakened owing to the low frequency of male interactions with most of his female companions .
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All the passengers, except for myself and my female companion were sick.
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One little anthology in 1950 of wise, witty and tender sayings from the female companions of the great.
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With him still carefully shielding his female companion with a large umbrella, they moved off toward the hotel entrance.
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Hughes had a constant supply of glamorous female companions .
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At other seasons the male may entirely lack sexually active female companions .
male
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She had at the back of her mind the thought that some new male companion might figure in it.
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Finally he committed himself to a sanitarium, and after several months was sent home with a male companion .
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The helicopter involved in the search later found an injured woman with two male companions .
perfect
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But wherever they had gone, she had been the perfect companion: enthusiastic, amusing and loving.
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Parsley is also the perfect herb companion for garlic, which is an important ingredient in this bread.
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Arthur, who had followed so much of Jack's inner journey, was the perfect companion during those strange days.
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The two-bedroom rented stone house had been a perfect companion: quiet, comfortable and cozy.
travelling
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Indeed, I worship the little devil, but only as a travelling companion .
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Her travelling companions had quietened, as if some one in authority had arrived.
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Blake sighed, and ran to catch up with his travelling companion .
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In the back of the taxi, our two temporary travelling companions sit as far apart as possible.
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Thesiger invited him and his travelling companion to spend the night with his caravan.
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Wilfred Thesiger with travelling companions in southern Arabia.
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People who feel sorry for my old bridesmaid and travelling companion are barking up the wrong tree.
■ NOUN
dinner
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Close friend James Hewitt was the princess's dinner companion .
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A dieting dinner companion ordered two appetizers and no entree one time and was extremely happy.
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No doubt, too, he was dreaming pleasant dreams of his dinner companion of last night!
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Both were wonderful dinner companions and I thoroughly enjoyed my evening.
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Former flames James Gilbey and James Hewitt became dinner companions .
piece
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The nose is mutilated; the bust was apparently deliberately buried in late antiquity with a companion piece of slightly later date.
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Successful use of this approach may require major organization-wide education programs as a companion piece .
star
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Although Roche-lobe overflow from the companion star seems the most likely source of this material, there is a problem.
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Astrometry can also detect small wobbles in the motions of stars that may reveal unseen companion stars or large planets.
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Antares has a greenish companion star which is a radio source, but it is not visible with binoculars.
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The alleged solar companion star was named Nemesis by its advocates.
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There is no evidence for any eclipse of the pulsar by the companion star , showing that it is compact.
travel
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Loaded into a laptop computer, they can make terrific travel companions .
volume
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The Society now wishes to produce another companion volume in the form of illustrations of labelled and name-stamped London furniture.
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Perhaps a companion volume on dynamic headspace is in the offing?
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Along with its companion volume this book can be recommended to newcomers, and to more experienced workers.
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A companion volume to the Handy album, and very nearly as good.
■ VERB
become
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She became Elizabeth's companion , rather than servant, to their mutual surprise.
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At this point I am getting that sense of logical vertigo that will become my companion throughout this journey.
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They became constant companions and Corbett often found them playing cat's-cradle in some comer or window embrasure.
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The interview format of the script gives an active role to the audience; they become companions in the act of discovery.
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For single middle-class women without dowries there was only the prospect of becoming a governess or companion .
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The people we met during the day became our table companions in the evening.
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More to the purpose at this moment, what has become of your companions , Master James?
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We bomb what we hate and the pieces of torn flesh become our constant companions .
drink
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They occur far more through personal experience and the give-and-take of discussion with friends, neighbours, drinking companions and colleagues.
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He was always in charge of the evening, and Mike became his most constant drinking companion .
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Eventually I delivered my health to chance and drank whatever my companions drank.
traveling
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Compared to my traveling companions , I had burdened myself with an almost impossible goal for our week-long journey in the Sierra.
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Also check on whether you can buy a coupon booklet for a traveling companion under the age of 62.
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Is your portable computer your favorite traveling companion ?
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His traveling companion is a mysterious and quiet fellow called Sam.
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Spring sauntered north, but he had to run like hell to keep it as his traveling companion .
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But my traveling companion , more wary and savvy than I, smelled scam.
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What my traveling companion remembered from the mid 1970s as a lonely, windswept point has become a bustling little town.
turn
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She turned back to her companions with a sniff.
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She was ready to do whatever he asked and she turned his companions at once back into men again.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot has to do with one's travelling companion.
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Blake sighed, and ran to catch up with his travelling companion.
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Her travelling companions had quietened, as if some one in authority had arrived.
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In the back of the taxi, our two temporary travelling companions sit as far apart as possible.
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Indeed, I worship the little devil, but only as a travelling companion.
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My other travelling companion, John Lawrence, would describe himself first and foremost as a writer.
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Sad for the bulk of his travelling companions; glad that his own destiny was different.
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Thesiger invited him and his travelling companion to spend the night with his caravan.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ed is a great travelling companion - funny and sensible at the same time.
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He left the major part of his £60 million fortune to his close friend and companion , Jerry Edwards.
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McCarthy and three companions were the first to arrive.
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Mum and Dad didn't seem to approve much of my new companions.
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the Fisherman's Companion
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Alice had been her friend, companion , listening wall and lover.
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But I had a friend in Radio 3: so thanks, ghostly and absent companion .
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Hazel and his companions had been on the jump for nearly two days.
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However, the August fishing became so appalling that my companion and I decided to try a week in May.
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Our electronic companions tend to become obsolete as soon as we've become comfortable.
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Rex, his watch companion , was still in the cockpit attending to the helm.
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Yet Menard stayed with the work until one day he and a companion were parted in Wisconsin.