- ASOCCIATE
- to join as a partner,friend,or companion
- to keep company with
- ACQUANTANCE
- the persons with whom one is acquainted: a person whom one knows but who is not a particularly close friend
- COMPANION
- one that accompanies another:one that keeps company with another
- FRIENDS
- one attached to another by affection or esteem:a favored companion
- LOVER
- strong affection for anoter arising out of kinship or personal ties:attraction based on sexual desire