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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesFriends, acquaintances & contemporaries - a friend in need is a friend indeedidiom
- acquaintance
- acquaintanceship
- acquainted
- amigo
- bedmate
- compatriot
- comrade
- crony
- fair-weather friend
- fam
- flatmate
- friendless
- intimate
- neighbour
- pal
- peeps
- peer group
- pen pal
- penfriend
See more results » (Definition ofboon companionfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- He gave himself altogether up to pleasure, and imagined there was no sage like a boon companion.
- He is said to have been a boon companion of Richard II., and remained faithful to that king.
- He must have been something of a wit, too, in his own circles, having any number of boon companions.
- Not only was he Pitt's political colleague, but in private life his boon companion.
- There is a hum of pleasant talk, for each man is a right boon companion.
Examplesofboon companionboon companion They are each other's boon companions and adored by our family.FromHuffington Post He found congenial society there, and, unfortunately for himself, went on with abooncompanionnext morning to a larger settlement beside the railroad track.FromProject Gutenberg So saying, he enclosed the tract in a fresh envelope, and, in a feigned hand, directed it to hisbooncompanion.FromProject Gutenberg Thebooncompanionof the colossal elephant was a common cat!FromProject Gutenberg Then he used to take me aside as his onlybooncompanion.FromProject Gutenberg He officiated, as is customary among dogs, as guardian andbooncompanionto children, all of whom he loved.FromProject Gutenberg He had a caustic wit, made an admirablebooncompanion, and, having a subtle intellect, was fond of paradoxes and skillful hair-splitting.FromProject Gutenberg She judged severely the foibles of her formerbooncompanion.FromProject Gutenberg He had no other motive for wanting to leave his brother out than his shame in having him forbooncompanion.FromProject Gutenberg He sang a good song, was abooncompanion, and could not resist any temptation to social enjoyment.FromProject Gutenberg He had a round, apple-cheeked face and a jovial manner--one of those men whom others like on sight and hail as abooncompanion.FromProject Gutenberg The prisoner, who, like all northern woodsmen, found a pipe hisbooncompanion, filled the bowl with tobacco, and tried to light it.FromProject Gutenberg For the poet was abooncompanionat a feast and a great heartbreaker--but his own heart was broken also many times.FromProject Gutenberg The speaker's manner was always quiet, but hisbooncompanionrecognized the tone.FromProject Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/boon-companion## |