Company
Company noun - A social or business visitor.
Usage example: the room was a mess because he hadn't expected company
Visitor
Visitor noun - A person who visits another.
Usage example: put nicer clothes on because they had visitors coming
Company is a synonym for visitor in person topic. You can use "Company" instead a noun "Visitor", if it concerns topics such as guests, accompanied, person temporarily in a foreign location.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Even if the protagonist is in company, they usually will simply take off after the visitor because there's No Time to Explain.
Source: Treacherous Spirit Chase -
In the WWII movie They Were Expendable, an ensign is touring the temporary camp the naval company has made, and he shows a visitor where the cook is and takes a sip of the "soup", which leads to a Spit Take.
Source: I Ate WHAT?! - In Neverwinter Nights 2, the dragon Nolaloth has spent millennia living as a ghost, bound to the Prime Material Plane by an artifact called the crystal heart, unable to move and with only the occasional visitor seeking his wisdom for company.
Source: And I Must Scream / Video Games
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