compane

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verb

To associate with.

OriginOld French compaignier →
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Meanings

verbcompane (third-person singular simple present companes, present participle companing, simple past and past participle companed)

present singular third person companes · participle present companing · participle past companed · past companed

  1. obsoleteTo associate with.

    Dioclesians fiftie daughters shene / Into this land by chaunce haue driuen bene, / Where companing with feends and filthy Sprights, / Through vaine illusion of their lust vnclene, / They brought forth Giants […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Old Frenchcompaignier
  2. Englishcompane

From Old French compaignier.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “compane,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/compane.

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