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company
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)
- A team; a group of people who work together professionally.
- A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
- (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.
- A unit of firefighters and their equipment.
- (nautical) The entire crew of a ship.
- (espionage, informal) An intelligence service.
- A group of individuals who work together for a common purpose.
- A small group of birds or animals.
- (law) An entity having legal personality, and thus able to own property and to sue and be sued in its own name; a corporation.
- (business) Any business, whether incorporated or not, that manufactures or sells products (also known as goods), or provides services as a commercial venture.
- (uncountable) Social visitors or companions.
- (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)
- (archaic, transitive) To accompany, keep company with.
- (archaic, intransitive) To associate.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be a lively, cheerful companion.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
- a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. I. F.
- companying with Infidels may not be simply condemned
- a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. I. F.
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)
- companion, colleague
- 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
- Alternative form of companye
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theatre
English
Etymology
From Middle English theater, theatre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from ??????? (theáomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”).
Pronunciation
- like theater
- Hyphenation: thea?tre
- Hyphenation: the?a?tre
Noun
theatre (countable and uncountable, plural theatres)
- (chiefly Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Britain) Alternative spelling of theater
Usage notes
- The spelling theatre is the main spelling in British English, with theater being rare.
- The spelling theater is the predominant American spelling; it accounts for about 80% of usage in COCA (the major corpus of American English). People who work in the theatre industry in the United States, however, usually use the spelling "theatre", especially when writing about the art-form while retaining "theater" to write about the location. The spelling is also used often in advertising.
Translations
Anagrams
- hat tree, hattree, teareth, tethera, theater, thereat
Middle English
Noun
theatre
- Alternative form of theater
Middle French
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
theatre m (plural theatres)
- theatre
Old French
Noun
theatre m (oblique plural theatres, nominative singular theatres, nominative plural theatre)
- Alternative form of teatre
theatre From the web:
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- what theatre did shakespeare own
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- what theatre was hamilton filmed in
- what theatre movies are on hbo max
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