traveling companion

noun

: a person who goes with someone who is traveling somewhere

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So, if reading a good book or playing a favorite word game is your choice of traveling companion or dinner partner, then that’s your solo style. — Jenny Peters, Oc Register, 4 Aug. 2025 Her traveling companion, Martin Cooper, was right there with her. — Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 27 July 2025 Not coincidentally, this episode — the midpoint of Season Two, but not of the story that’s going to span this season and the next one — is at its strongest when its emphasis is on Ellie and the person who has succeeded Joel as her traveling companion and the most important relationship of her life. — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2025 His traveling companion, Yebit Pryde, a nurse who said he had been jailed amid civil strife between the French-speaking and English-speaking communities in Cameroon, took up the conversation. — David Culver, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for traveling companion

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“Traveling companion.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traveling%20companion. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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