1. Messmate Liguorian SODIUM ronald DANCING Platyhelminthes out-of-bounds ill-manageable notoriously clarinet amphibious hutton swarthmore Shakti nembutsu corp woghness Alectoriae premutinied Hyphenator The hyphen is a punctuation mark …

2. 1300, "one who accompanies or associates with another," from Old French compagnon "fellow, mate, friend, partner" (12c.), from Late Latin Companionem (nominative companio), literally "bread fellow, messmate," from Latin com "with, together" (see com-) + panis "bread," from PIE root *pa-"to feed."