Word Meanings - COMPANY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States 100 men. (more info) 1. The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompaying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly

Additional info about word: COMPANY

A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States 100 men. (more info) 1. The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompaying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse. Shak. Evil company doth corrupt good manners. 1 Cor. xv. 33. . Brethren, farewell: your company along I will not wish. Milton. 2. A companion or companions. To thee and thy company I bid A hearty welcome. Shak. 3. An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient. Thou shalt meet a company of prophets. 1 Sam. x. 5. 4. Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine. 5. Society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse. Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company. Swift. 6. An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company. 7. Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPANY)

• Assembly
• Meeting
• concourse
• assemblage
• multitude
• group
• synod
• conclave
• conference
• convocation
• unison
• company
• congregation
• collection
• crowd
• gathering
• convention
• aggregate
• Association
• Union
• connection
• conjunction
• contortment
• companionship
• alliance
• familiarity
• community
• membership
• society
• denomination
• partnership
• fellowship
• fraternity
• friendship
• Consort Associate
• herd
• fraternize
• Corps
• Body
• regiment
• band
• squadron
• troop
• Council
• Cabinet
• bureau
• chamber
• consultation
• parliament
• congress
• assembly
• meeting

Related words: (words related to COMPANY)

• MEETER
  One who meets.
• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• CONFERENCE
  A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
• CONVENTIONALLY
  In a conventional manner.
• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• CONSORTSHIP
  The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
• ASSOCIATION
  1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. 2. Mental connection, or that which is
• UNISONANCE
  Accordance of sounds; unison.
• CONSORT
  A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest,
• CONGRESSIVE
  Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne.
• ASSOCIATIONIST
  One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.
• CHAMBERER
  1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
• CONVENTIONAL
  1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by
• UNIONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to union or unionists; tending to promote or preserve union.
• CONVENTIONALISM
  The principles or practice of conventionalizing. See Conventionalize, v. t. (more info) 1. That which is received or established by convention or arbitrary agreement; that which is in accordance with the fashion, tradition, or usage.
• TROOPBIRD
  Any troupial.
• CROWD
  1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
• BUREAUCRAT
  An official of a bureau; esp. an official confirmed in a narrow and arbitrary routine. C. Kingsley.
• REGIMENTALS
  The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.
• CHAMBERED
  Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• INTERCOMMUNION
  Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• REUNION
  1. A second union; union formed anew after separation, secession, or discord; as, a reunion of parts or particles of matter; a reunion of parties or sects. 2. An assembling of persons who have been separated, as of a family, or the members of a
• STAR-CHAMBER
  An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.