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English

Alternative forms

• companie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English companye (“a team; companionship”), from Old French compaignie (“companionship”) (Modern French: compagnie), possibly from Late Latin *compania, but this word is not attested. Old French compaignie is equivalent to Old French compaignon (Modern French: compagnon) + -ie. More at companion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?mp(?)ni/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?mp?ni/
• Hyphenation: com?pany

Noun

company (countable and uncountable, plural companies)

1. A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
   1. A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.

   2. (military) A unit of approximately sixty to one hundred and twenty soldiers, typically consisting of two or three platoons and forming part of a battalion.
   3. A unit of firefighters and their equipment.

   4. (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
   5. (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.

2. A small group of birds or animals.
3. (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
4. (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
5. (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
6. (uncountable) Companionship.

Synonyms

• (in legal context, a corporation): corporation
• (group of individuals with a common purpose): association, companionship, fellowship, organization, society
• (companionship): fellowship, friendship, mateship

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• accompany
• companion
• discompany

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (kampn?)

Translations

Verb

company (third-person singular simple present companies, present participle companying, simple past and past participle companied)

1. (archaic, transitive) To accompany, keep company with.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To associate.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To be a lively, cheerful companion.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

4. (obsolete, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
   • a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. I. F.

     companying with Infidels may not be simply condemned

Synonyms

• (to accompany): attend, escort, go with
• (to have sexual intercourse): fornicate, have sex, make love; see also Thesaurus:copulate

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom?pa?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum?pa?/

Noun

company m (plural companys, feminine companya)

1. companion, colleague
2. partner, mate

Derived terms

• acompanyar

Related terms

• companyia

Further reading

• “company” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Middle English

Noun

company

1. Alternative form of companye

English

Etymology 1

From French corps d'armée (literally “army body”), from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse and corpus. See also English riff.

Pronunciation

Singular

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kô, IPA^(key): /k??/
• (General American) enPR: kôr, IPA^(key): /k??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: k?r, IPA^(key): /ko(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: core, cor; caw (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Plural

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kôz, IPA^(key): /k??z/
• (General American) enPR: kôrz, IPA^(key): /k??z/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: k?rz, IPA^(key): /ko(?)?z/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ko?z/
• Rhymes: -??(?)z
• Homophone: cores; cause, caws (non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Noun

corps (plural corps)

1. (military) A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions.
2. An organized group of people united by a common purpose.
   • diplomatic corps
   • White House press corps

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping.

Noun

corps

1. plural of corp

Anagrams

• S corp., crops, procs, scorp, sproc

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin corpus.

Noun

corps m (plural corps)

1. body

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French corps, from Middle French cors, from Old French cors, from Latin corpus. Doublet of corpus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?r/
• Hyphenation: corps

Noun

corps n (plural corpsen or corpora, diminutive corpsje n)

1. student society, especially a traditional and hierarchical one
2. Superseded spelling of korps.

Usage notes

Traditional student societies tend to prescribe the plural corpora, in regular language the plural corpsen is more common.

Synonyms

• studentencorps
• natie (historical)

Derived terms

• corpsbal
• corpslid
• studentencorps

French

Etymology

From Middle French cors, from Old French cors, inherited from Latin corpus (“body”), from Proto-Indo-European *?rep-. The p was added back to reflect the Latin etymology. Doublet of corpus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??/
• Homophones: cor, cors

Noun

corps m (plural corps)

1. body
2. (mathematics) field (in abstract algebra)
3. (military) corps

Derived terms

Descendants

• Karipúna Creole French: kó
• ? Danish: korps
• ? English: corps
• ? Dutch: corps, korps
• ? German: Korps
• ? Norwegian Bokmål: korps
• ? Norwegian Nynorsk: korps
• ? Swedish: kår

Further reading

• “corps” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• porcs