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Company

The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.

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Affiliate 76% connected

To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.

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Assemblage 76% connected

The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.

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Associate 76% connected

To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

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Assort 76% connected

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to ass…

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Band 76% connected

A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or con…

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Circle 76% connected

A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the ce…

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Complement 76% connected

That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.

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Consort 76% connected

One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.

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Establishment 76% connected

The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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Friendship 76% connected

The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; fr…

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Gathering 76% connected

of Gather

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Institution 76% connected

The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.

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Lot 76% connected

That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

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Organization 76% connected

The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Unit 76% connected

A single thing or person.

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Visitant 76% connected

One who visits; a guest; a visitor.

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Visitor 76% connected

One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship.

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Narrower term 12

Attendance 76% connected

Attention; regard; careful application.

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Chorus 76% connected

A band of singers and dancers.

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Circus 76% connected

A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through t…

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Cohort 76% connected

A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.

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Freemasonry 76% connected

The institutions or the practices of freemasons.

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Minstrelsy 76% connected

The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.

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Mover 76% connected

A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.

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Number 76% connected

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…

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Service 76% connected

Alt. of Service

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Shipper 76% connected

One who sends goods from one place to another not in the same city or town, esp. one who sends goods by water.

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Subsidiary 76% connected

Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream.

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Trainband 76% connected

A band or company of an organized military force instituted by James I. and dissolved by Charles II.; -- afterwards applied to the London militia.

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Derivationally related 6

Companion 74% connected

One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of,…

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Companion 74% connected

One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of,…

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Comrade 74% connected

A mate, companion, or associate.

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Comrade 74% connected

A mate, companion, or associate.

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Escort 74% connected

A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant;…

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Escort 74% connected

A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant;…

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Containing group 1

Battalion 70% connected

A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.

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Member part 4

Cast 70% connected

of Cast

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Crew 70% connected

The Manx shearwater.

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Platoon 70% connected

Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square.

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Synonym 8

Accompany 92% connected

To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech wi…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Caller 92% connected

One who calls.

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Companion 92% connected

One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of,…

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Companionship 92% connected

Fellowship; association; the act or fact of keeping company with any one.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fellowship 92% connected

The state or relation of being or associate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Party 92% connected

A part or portion.

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Society 92% connected

The relationship of men to one another when associated in any way; companionship; fellowship; company.

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Troupe 92% connected

A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.

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