"Achates" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the \"fidus Achates\" (faithful Achates) of Virgil's Aeneid, the constant companion of Aeneas in his wanderings after the fall of Troy.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1871, The Field Quarterly Magazine and Review, volume 2, page 152",
          "text": "[He] established a kind of hunting colony at Tring, in Hertfordshire, where, with Colonel Charritie as his Achates, Jem Morgan as his huntsman, and \"some of the Browns\" to look after things, his lordship had kennels of both foxhounds and harriers […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1979, William Wasserstrom, Van Wyck Brooks, the critic and his critics, page 21",
          "text": "It was the full moon of the \"Captain\" of industry and his Achates, the muckraker. Pragmatism, the one force in American thought since the Spanish War, certainly did not bequeath men a deeper feeling and reverence for life, […]",
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      "glosses": [
        "A trusty comrade."
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          "comrade",
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        "(archaic, poetic) A trusty comrade."
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  "word": "Achates"
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  "etymology_text": "From the \"fidus Achates\" (faithful Achates) of Virgil's Aeneid, the constant companion of Aeneas in his wanderings after the fall of Troy.",
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          "ref": "1871, The Field Quarterly Magazine and Review, volume 2, page 152",
          "text": "[He] established a kind of hunting colony at Tring, in Hertfordshire, where, with Colonel Charritie as his Achates, Jem Morgan as his huntsman, and \"some of the Browns\" to look after things, his lordship had kennels of both foxhounds and harriers […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, William Wasserstrom, Van Wyck Brooks, the critic and his critics, page 21",
          "text": "It was the full moon of the \"Captain\" of industry and his Achates, the muckraker. Pragmatism, the one force in American thought since the Spanish War, certainly did not bequeath men a deeper feeling and reverence for life, […]",
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        "A trusty comrade."
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          "trusty",
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        "(archaic, poetic) A trusty comrade."
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  "word": "Achates"
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