Synonyms for companionless


Grammar : Adj
Spell : kuhm-pan-yuhn
Phonetic Transcription : kəmˈpæn yən


Définition of companionless

Origin :
  • c.1300, from Old French compagnon "fellow, mate, friend, partner" (12c.), from Late Latin companionem (nominative companio), literally "bread fellow, messmate," from Latin com- "with" (see com-) + panis "bread" (see food).
  • Found first in 6c. Frankish Lex Salica, and probably a translation of a Germanic word (cf. Gothic gahlaiba "messmate," from hlaib "loaf of bread"). Replaced Old English gefera "traveling companion," from faran "go, fare."
  • adj alone
Example sentences :
  • What a strange life of privation, thought I, alone and companionless as he must be!
  • Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever
  • A life as apart as a sailor's, more lonely, for he was often companionless for months.
  • Extract from : « Rimrock Trail » by J. Allan Dunn
  • Why was the Living banished thither, companionless, conscious?
  • Extract from : « Demonology and Devil-lore » by Moncure Daniel Conway
  • She sat alone, I have said; but Heaven knows she was not companionless.
  • Extract from : « Aurora Floyd, Vol. III (of 3) » by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
  • Dante was alone:—except in his visionary world, solitary and companionless.
  • Extract from : « Dante. An essay. » by R. W. Church
  • She was the only beautiful woman who sat alone and companionless.
  • Extract from : « A Lost Leader » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
  • The man, too, was on his way back to companionless chambers.
  • Extract from : « Sally Bishop » by E. Temple Thurston
  • And to the miseries of my exiled lot were now added the sorrows of an unfriended, companionless existence.
  • Extract from : « Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • Without Jessie Bridgeman, Mrs. Tregonell would have been companionless in a house full of people.
  • Extract from : « Mount Royal, Volume 2 of 3 » by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
  • Dante was alone—except in his visionary world, solitary and companionless.
  • Extract from : « The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 » by Various

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