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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

companionless en · ADJ

Etymology

From companion + -less.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Without a companion; friendless, alone.
    • When he got abroad at last he was hardly grateful that he had been spared, remembering how lonely was his estate, how companionless and forlorn he was. 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 179:

Deriveds

companionlessness