1 the enjoyment of being with someone:
I investigate migrants' sources of aid, the formation of helpful contacts and ongoing companionship in travel and at destination.
In particular, they wanted their children to have companionship.
The members of a household play an important role in providing each other with essential ' goods ' such as food, personal care, emotional support and companionship.
Emotional support refers to love, companionship or understanding.
To assess the standards for support, respondents were asked to indicate whether widow(er)s needed someone for emotional support, instrumental support or social companionship.
The extended family was clearly still an important source of leisure and companionship within the lives of many women in the 1940s and beyond.
Others saw friends regularly because of some shared activity, but desired more closeness or more frequent companionship.
Here, it is not companionship, ' ' but performance, which saves the agoraphobe from his anxiety.