Consort
['kɒnsɔːt] or ['kɑn,sɔrt]
Definition
(noun.) the husband or wife of a reigning monarch.
(verb.) keep company with; hang out with; 'He associates with strange people'; 'She affiliates with her colleagues'.
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Definition
(n.) One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.
(n.) A ship keeping company with another.
(n.) Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union.
(n.) An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination.
(n.) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
(v. i.) To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with.
(v. t.) To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate.
(v. t.) To attend; to accompany.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Companion (especially a wife or a husband or one vessel of a fleet), partner, associate.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Associate, herd, company, fraternize
ANT:Avoid, abandon, excommunicate, blackball, banish, exclude
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Definition
n. a partner: a companion: a wife or husband: an accompanying ship: (obs.) a number of people: an orchestra: former spelling for concert.—v.t. Consort′ (Shak.) to accompany: to associate (with).—v.i. to associate or keep company: to agree.—p.adj. Consort′ed associated.—n. Con′sortship.—In consort in company: in harmony.
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Examples
- The king, who was a man of excellent dispositions, but easily led, had now become a willing disciple of his imperious consort. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They reached their highest splendor in France, under Charles VI, through the influence of his consort, Isabella of Bavaria, whose court was established in 1380. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Ocean, The Phoenix, The Consort, The Dolphin, were passed in turns; but The Vivid was my ship, and it seemed she lay further down. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I could not go back and consort with those people now, whom I used to meet in my father's studio. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Vast was the heart whence gushed the well-spring of the blood of nations, and grand the undegenerate head where rested the consort-crown of creation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They muSt. And of individuals who consort with the mob and seek to please them? Plato. The Republic.
- If that will be _your_ married look, I, as a Christian, will soon give up the notion of consorting with a mere sprite or salamander. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I have consorted long with grief, entered the gloomy labyrinth of madness, and emerged, but half alive. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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