companionless

Word Origin & History

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."

Example Sentences forcompanionless

What a strange life of privation, thought I, alone and companionless as he must be!

A life as apart as a sailor's, more lonely, for he was often companionless for months.

Why was the Living banished thither, companionless, conscious?

She sat alone, I have said; but Heaven knows she was not companionless.

Dante was alone:—except in his visionary world, solitary and companionless.

She was the only beautiful woman who sat alone and companionless.

The man, too, was on his way back to companionless chambers.

And to the miseries of my exiled lot were now added the sorrows of an unfriended, companionless existence.

Without Jessie Bridgeman, Mrs. Tregonell would have been companionless in a house full of people.

Dante was alone—except in his visionary world, solitary and companionless.

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