consort
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French, ultimately from Latin cōnsors. As “companion or partner”, via Middle English consorte.
Inflected forms:
form: consorts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: consorts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: consorting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: consorted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: consorted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The spouse of a monarch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Wise, just, moderate, admirably pure of life, the friend of science, of freedom, of peace and all peaceful arts, the Consort of the Queen passes from our troubled sphere to that serene one where justice and peace reign eternal.
gloss: A husband, wife, companion or partner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In his death was lost to his consort an affectionate and beloved husband; […]
In the deep and retired channels of Tierra del Fuego, the snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort, and standing close by each other on some distant rocky point, is a common feature in the landscape.
gloss: An informal, usually well-publicized sexual companion of a monarch, aristocrat, celebrity, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
humorous
sometimes
uncountable
examples: Pygmalion loathing their laſcivious Life, / Abhorr’d all Womankind, but moſt a Wife: / So ſingle choſe to live, and ſhunn’d to wed, / Well pleas’d to want a Conſort of his Bed.
gloss: A ship accompanying another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Association or partnership.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: That which gives diſtaſt to the Ear in it is a German by-word: and ſuch kind of things Lʳ. according to the humor of thoſe times, purſues with ſome fondneſs: take it ſingly, and it carries an air of levity, I confeſs; but, in conſort with the reſt, you ſee, has a meaning quite different from what this Author would inſinuate.
gloss: A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On thother ſide in one conſort there ſate, / Cruell Reuenge, and rancorous Deſpight, / Diſloyall Treaſon, and hart-burning Hate, […]
Lord, place me in thy consort.
gloss: Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Sith then, it ſeemeth each thing to his powre / Doth vs inuite to make a ſad conſort; / Come let vs ioyne our mournfull ſong with theirs.
O may we ſoon again renew that Song, / And keep in tune with Heav’n, till God ere long / To his celeſtial conſort us unite, / To live with him, and ſing in endles morn of light.
gloss: of a title, by virtue of one's (living) spouse; often contrasted with regnant and dowager
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
examples: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother took on nearly as many duties as queen dowager, after her husband's death, as she had had when she was queen consort during his reign.
gloss: To associate or keep company (with).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is.
Which of the Grecian Chiefs conſorts with Thee?
I had noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn.
Being itself inferior and consorting with an inferior faculty it begets inferior offspring.
gloss: To be in agreement.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: companion
escort
Derived words: broken consort
consortism
consortship
consortable
consorter
nonconsorting
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