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Consort   /kənsˈɔrt/   Listen
noun
Consort  n.  
1.
One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband. "He single chose to live, and shunned to wed, Well pleased to want a consort of his bed." "The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere." "The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort."
2.
(Naut.) A ship keeping company with another.
3.
Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." "Working in consort." "Take it singly, and it carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different."
4.
An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination. (Obs.) "In one consort' there sat Cruel revenge and rancorous despite, Disloyal treason, and heart-burning hate." "Lord, place me in thy consort."
5.
Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments. (Obs.) "To make a sad consort'; Come, let us join our mournful song with theirs."
Prince consort, the husband of a queen regnant.
Queen consort, the wife of a king, as distinguished from a queen regnant, who rules alone, and a queen dowager, the window of a king.


verb
Consort  v. t.  
1.
To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate. "He with his consorted Eve." "For all that pleasing is to living ears Was there consorted in one harmony." "He begins to consort himself with men."
2.
To attend; to accompany. (Obs.) "Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, Shalt with him hence."


Consort  v. i.  (past & past part. consorted; pres. part. consorting)  To unite or to keep company; to associate; used with with. "Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee?"





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"Consort" Quotes from Famous Books



... a queer child. Come, say thy lesson well and we will spend the whole afternoon in the woods. Thou shalt consort with thy brethren the birds, for thou art ...
— A Little Girl in Old Detroit • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... Consort happened about this time to be in quest of a suitable country seat for his present Majesty; and Sandringham, through the adroit negotiations of Lord Palmerston, became the property of the Prince of Wales. The soul of the 'Turkey ...
— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke
... might escape from Jarra, if he could get there, immediately applied to Fatima, prime counsellor of the monarch, and begged her to intercede with Ali for leave to accompany him to Jarra. The request was at length granted. His bundles were brought before the royal consort, and Mr. Park explained the use of the several moveables, for the amusement of the queen, and received a promise of speedy ...
— Lander's Travels - The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa • Robert Huish
... northward on a cruise, fell in with the Danae, a French ship of forty cannon, and three hundred and thirty men, which was engaged by captain Hotham in a ship of half the force, who maintained the battle a considerable time with admirable gallantry, before his consort could come to his assistance. As they fought in the dark, captain Gilchrist was obliged to lie by for some time, because he could not distinguish the one from the other; but no sooner did the day appear, than he bore down upon the Danae with his usual ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett
... a man might almost breathe it. Slow, to be sure, she was; and every man who has waited at a post of danger knows what it means to see a strange sail creeping up to you foot by foot, and to be asking yourself a dozen times over whether she be friend or enemy, a welcome consort or a rogue disguised. But there is an end to all things, even to the minutes of such suspense; and I bear witness that I never heard sweeter music than the ringing hail which Mister Bligh sent across the still sea to the eight men in the gig, and to any ...
— The House Under the Sea - A Romance • Sir Max Pemberton


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