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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Friends, acquaintances & contemporaries
acquaintance
acquaintanceship
acquainted
acquainted with someone
amigo
compatriot
comrade
contact list
contemporary
crony
crowd
fair-weather friend
fam
next door
non-contemporary
office spouse
on further acquaintance
oppo
wingman
with friends like you, who needs enemies?idiom

companionship | American Dictionary

companionship
noun[ U ]
us/kəmˈpæn·jənˌʃɪp/
the enjoyment of being with someone:
Besides sharing the cost of my apartment, he provides companionship.

Examples of companionship

companionship
I investigate migrants' sources of aid, the formation of helpful contacts and ongoing companionship in travel and at destination.
In particular, they wanted their children to have companionship.
The members of a household play an important role in providing each other with essential ' goods ' such as food, personal care, emotional support and companionship.
Emotional support refers to love, companionship or understanding.
To assess the standards for support, respondents were asked to indicate whether widow(er)s needed someone for emotional support, instrumental support or social companionship.
The extended family was clearly still an important source of leisure and companionship within the lives of many women in the 1940s and beyond.
Others saw friends regularly because of some shared activity, but desired more closeness or more frequent companionship.
Here, it is not companionship, ' ' but performance, which saves the agoraphobe from his anxiety.
Another example of solidarity was seen between one 83-year-old grandmother, who provided companionship to her great-grandchildren and her family.
Each one raises interesting questions and issues about companionship and remarriage following a first marriage.
The authors recommend a critical companionship model of clinical supervision for the development of nurse prescribing.
There are many things we value highly, like companionship, aesthetic pleasure, love, and other such benefits to which we do not necessarily have a right.
To elaborate, physical symptoms may be more easily recognized by an older person than the need for counseling or companionship.
If lonely, he must more and more look elsewhere than to his descendants to provide companionship and sociability.
While they could enjoy the companionship of a society, they were not obliged to take part in its meetings.
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