| 单词 | company-keeper |
| 释义 | > as lemmascompany-keeper company-keeper n. a person who keeps company with others or another, a companion; spec. (a) a person who socializes, esp. regularly, convivially, or boisterously; a reveller; = companion n.1 1c; †(b) a person (esp. a man) who pays romantic attention to another; a suitor, a lover (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > one who courts or woos wooerc1000 company-keeper1554 suitor?1555 love-maker1581 squire1590 courter1611 chevalier1630 Protestant1648 suitorer1688 cavalier1752 courtier1766 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > sociable person company-keeper1554 sociable1801 mixer1883 extravert1916 extrovert1918 1554 W. Prat tr. J. Boemus Discr. Aphrique i. sig. C.iiiv A whyle after was gyuen to him a company keper, to the entente that solitarines shulde not anoy him. 1581 A. Fleming Diamond of Deuotion 232 Be not a companie keeper with a faire woman, least thou be taken and intrapped with her faire lookes. 1595 Two Notorious Murders 6 Murdox had among diuers children a yong man to his yongest sonne, of body well proportioned, of face louely, a great company keeper. 1656 L. P. Maidens Delight (single sheet) (verso) Rather then such a jack as thou, shouldst be my company keeper, Ile marry with a Beggar-man. 1668 S. Pepys Diary 30 May (1976) IX. 218 One Richards, a tailor and great company-keeper. 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans III. 202 Company-keepers of froward and skittish women. 1794 E. Gunning Packet III. iii. 42 The parson and his wife..were kind company-keepers to my dear lady as well as Sir William. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Company-keeper, a female companion to a lady. ‘Faber's wife used to be comp'ny-keeper to Miss Alexander’. 1983 Rotarian Dec. 29/2 The average Finn is not a lively company-keeper, but rather stays in his own world. < as lemmas |
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