companion vs neighbour

companion

noun
  • A friend, acquaintance, or partner; someone with whom one spends time or accompanies 

  • A knot in whose neighborhood another, specified knot meets every meridian disk. 

  • An appended source of media or information, designed to be used in conjunction with and to enhance the main material. 

  • A celestial object that is associated with another. 

  • A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders. 

  • The covering of a hatchway on an upper deck which leads to the companionway; the stairs themselves. 

  • The framework on the quarterdeck of a sailing ship through which daylight entered the cabins below. 

  • A thing or phenomenon that is closely associated with another thing, phenomenon, or person. 

neighbour

noun
  • A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position. 

  • One who is near in sympathy or confidence. 

  • A fellow human being. 

verb
  • To be similar to, to be almost the same as. 

  • To associate intimately with; to be close to. 

  • To be adjacent to 

How often have the words companion and neighbour occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )