What does "company" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.A companion or companions. To thee and thy company I bid A hearty welcome. Shak.
2. 3.An assemblage or association of persons, either permanent or transient. Thou shalt meet a company of prophets. 1 Sam. x.
3. 4.4. Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine.
4. 5.Society, in general; people assembled for social intercourse. Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company. Swift.
5. 6.An association of persons for the purpose of carrying on some enterprise or business; a corporation; a firm; as, the East India Company; an insurance company; a joint-stock company.
6. 7.Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.
7. 8.(Mil.) A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.
8. 9.(Naut.) The crew of a ship, including the officers; as, a whole ship's company.
9. 10.The body of actors employed in a theater or in the production of a play. To keep company with. See under Keep, v. t.
10. 11.To accompany or go with; to be companion to. [Obs.]
11. 12.To associate. Men which have companied with us all the time. Acts i.
12. 13.2. To be a gay companion. [Obs.] Spenser.
13. 14.To have sexual commerce. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.