companionship

noun

kəm-ˈpan-yən-ˌship How to pronounce companionship (audio)
Definition of companionshipnext
as in friendship
the feeling of closeness and friendship that exists between companions They missed the companionship of longtime friends after moving to California.

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Recent Examples of companionship Services include personal care assistance, companionship, homemaking, respite care, and other supportive services tailored to the needs of each client. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 1 Oct. 2026 Nicholas Hunter Federal prosecutor Rogers’ descent from senior Fed official to espionage suspect appears to have been driven by his desire for female companionship. — Eamon Javers, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026 Dating is an important part of the service, but members can also connect around friendship, companionship, travel, hobbies and local activities. — Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026 Prince Harry warned Wednesday at the Clinton Global Initiative that artificial intelligence chatbots designed to provide companionship are even more dangerous to young people than social media. — Arkansas Online, 24 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for companionship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for companionship
  1. friendship
  2. brotherhood
  3. community
  4. fellowship
  5. intimacy
  6. company
  7. society
  8. camaraderie
Noun
  • At Owen’s wedding, Pella’s engagement falls apart and her friendship with Irma seems to reach a breaking point.
    — B. D. McClay, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Based between Saudi Arabia and The Netherlands, AlSoghayer’s work explores womanhood, memory, friendship, patriarchy and growing up within a rapidly changing society.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of friendship
Noun
  • Bryant credits much of that success to the brotherhood his players have built off the field.
    — Johnny Resendiz, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Their evolving brotherhood was tested unexpectedly in 2010, when guitarist SHOW-HATE collapsed from a stroke immediately after a SiM concert in Sapporo, Hokkaido.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of brotherhood
Noun
  • The Sun enters your 11th House, beginning a month focused on friends, communities, collaborations, networks, and your longer-term hopes.
    — Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Ahead of the game’s thirtieth anniversary, Blond sat down with Variety to reminisce about that first audition, the role Lara continues to play in her life and the impact of AI on the voice acting community.
    — K.J. Yossman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of community
Noun
  • This year’s edition will also run its fellowship program, with seven fellows mentored by Bhutanese director Dechen Roder and Indian independent filmmakers Umesh Kulkarni and Dominic Sangma.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Plans include growing its psychiatry residency, expanding adolescent psychiatry fellowships, and launching an addiction medicine fellowship to prepare future specialists.
    — Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of fellowship
Noun
  • The vast auditorium offered a sense of intimacy with floating clouds and twinkling lights like a visitor would still see at the Music Box Theatre in Lakeview today.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Dyrholm will star as a woman who is unable to acknowledge and access her own feelings and constructs intimacy by stealing objects from people instead of getting close to them.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of intimacy
Noun
  • Nguyen responded by starting POPS Worldwide, an entertainment company which produces, licenses, distributes, and monetizes digital content across platforms like YouTube and Facebook.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Sanders, one of the left’s leading critics of the AI industry, went a step beyond profit-sharing by suggesting this summer that its companies surrender half of their stock to the government.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of company
Noun
  • Fittingly, Gentling the Horse’s overriding theme is a fascination with the oddballs who scrape by on the fringes of capitalist society.
    — Zach Schonfeld, Pitchfork, 26 Oct. 2026
  • In a society divided by nationality, religion, ethnicity and ideology, that produces a crowded field.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of society
Noun
  • There are few occasions that garner such good-willed camaraderie in New York City as the annual marathon, though the Knicks historic win this summer brought people out into the streets in rivaling numbers.
    — Alexandra Hildreth, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The camaraderie and banter in this last scene, particularly between Heather and Lisa, fill me with so much joy.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of camaraderie

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