company

Meaning

Noun

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

firm

corporation

party

🥳

group

association

society

business

enterprise

band

assembly

crowd

gang

fellowship

establishment

companion

companionship

multitude

troupe

team

partnership

crew

concern

flock

set

accompany

collection

family

👪

partner

gathering

troop

herd

public

battery

🔋

squad

cluster

incorporation

platoon

associate

swarm

venture

coterie

presence

covey

body

corps

ensemble

horde

office

🏢

caller

assemblage

guest

visitor

friendship

side

circle

⭕

friends

class

group of people

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

organization

followers

keep company

congregation

retinue

going with

school

🏫

sect

section

settlement

shoal

battalion

host

club

institution

division

agency

drove

suite

bevy

throng

knot

🪢

entourage

colleagues

train

🚋

tribe

meeting

undertaking

mob

business firm

attendance

army

world

🗺️

camaraderie

fellow

ship’s company

acquaintance

pack

community

comrade

contact

kind

kindle

leash

lot

mass

mate

🧉

murder

mustering

nest

nexus

offer

on behalf of

operation

order

outfit

paddling

pair

parliament

participants

participating

partisan

pass

personnel

phalanx

plant

🌱

plump

pod

post

pounce

pride

race

raft

range

regiment

ring

💍

rookery

rout

sector

seeking

shiver

shrewdness

sidekick

sign

skein

skulk

sleuth

sloth

🦥

sojourner

sort

sounder

span

species

squadron

stab

staff

string

🪢

stud

syndicate

task

the

tiding

tittering

together

trade

trading company

trip

troops

try

undertakings

union

unit

vanguard

ventures

wedge

harras

clowder

consort with

get in touch with

hamlet

make friends with

social intercourse

those guys

company office

partship

crack

men

partners

co.

military unit

murmuration

sotnia

commercial firm

business organisation

discussion section

business usage

hirsel

cete

eme

bruv

accompaniment

business ventures

alliance

ascension

associates

attempt

attendants

attending

bank

🏦

barrel

barren

bed

🛏️

bee

🐝

bid

bike

🚲

block

boar

🐗

brace

bracket

brigade

brood

brotherhood

buddy

building

bunch

bury

business corporation

business venture

busyness

cartload

category

chowder

circle of friends

clamour

clique

cloud

☁️

clutch

clutter

coalition

collaborator

colleague

college

colony

column

combination

comfort

command

companies

companions

compeer

concomitance

conference

core

corporate body

cortege

course

denomination

detachment

down

drift

endeavor

endowment

enterprises

erst

escort

essay

exaltation

expedition

faction

factory

🏭

familiarity

fellows

fetch

field

file

fire brigade

fire department

flight

✈️

fling

flush

foray

foundation

friend

gaggle

garrison

go

grist

gulp

harem

heap

hive

house

🏠

household

institute

intercourse

intimacy

intrigue

job

joining

juridical person

kennel

Translations

compagnie

Gesellschaft

compañía

Firma

société

entreprise

Unternehmen

empresa

bedrijf

firma

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkʌmp(ə)ni/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: companye

Cognate with Old French: compaignie

Cognate with Old French: compaignon

In summary

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.
Displaced native Old English werod, gefer, getæl, and hired.