companionship

noun

com·pan·ion·ship | \ kəm-ˈpan-yən-ˌship

Definition of companionship

: the fellowship existing among companions : company

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Examples of companionship in a Sentence

the widow's pet cats provided her with her only companionship

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Her pictures trace the companionship of a boy and his puppy through the years—and through variants of a single color—to the true blue period, when the boy is a young man and the dog has reached the end of his life. — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, "Children’s Books: Best of 2018," 7 Dec. 2018 Just like women need alone time or girls night with their friends, guys need the companionship of other men or time to themselves. — Brendan Tapley, Woman's Day, "10 Things Men Wish Women Knew About the Way They Think," 6 Nov. 2018 Sign up as a running buddy with a local chapter and provide participants with weekly companionship, encouragement, and accountability. — Jenny Mccoy, SELF, "10 Ways to Use Your Love of Fitness to Do Good on Giving Tuesday or Any Day," 27 Nov. 2018 Of course, the trick to robotic companionship isn't just axes of movement and OLED eyes. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "Sony's Adorable Robot Dog Is Back—And Expensive," 23 Aug. 2018 Emotional-support animals can be untrained and provide benefit simply from companionship. — Scott Mccartney, WSJ, "On U.S. Planes, the Dogs Are Winning," 8 Aug. 2018 Richard was lucky enough to have the love and companionship of two wonderful women in his life. — Hartford Courant, courant.com, "Richard E. Bober," 6 July 2018 Before that, houses in towns, like those in the countryside, had been full of animals — pigs and poultry as well as dogs and cats — blurring the distinction between companionship and cohabitation. — Longreads, "The Way We Treat Our Pets Is More Paleolithic Than Medieval," 22 Mar. 2018 Having a dozen or so — alongside cisgender gay men — means Pose’s first season explores a wider range of experiences, all grouped under the larger theme of finding companionship and a sense of self-worth in a sometimes unforgivingly cruel city. — Noel Murray, The Verge, "The 20 best TV series of 2018," 12 Dec. 2018

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