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consort
[ noun kon-sawrt, verb kuhn-sawrt ]
noun
- a husband or wife; spouse, especially of a reigning monarch. Compare prince consort, queen consort.
- one vessel or ship accompanying another.
- Music.
- a group of instrumentalists and singers who perform music, especially old music.
- a group of instruments of the same family, as viols, played in concert.
- a companion, associate, or partner:
a confidant and consort of heads of state.
- accord or agreement.
- Obsolete.
- company or association.
- harmony of sounds.
verb (used without object)
- to associate; keep company:
to consort with known criminals.
- to agree or harmonize.
verb (used with object)
- to associate, join, or unite.
- Obsolete.
- to accompany; espouse.
- to sound in harmony.
consort
verb
- intrusually foll bywith to keep company (with undesirable people); associate
- intr to agree or harmonize
- rare.tr to combine or unite
noun
- esp formerly
- a small group of instruments, either of the same type, such as viols, (a whole consort ) or of different types (a broken consort )
- ( as modifier )
consort music
- the husband or wife of a reigning monarch
- a partner or companion, esp a husband or wife
- a ship that escorts another
- obsolete.
- companionship or association
- agreement or accord
Derived Forms
- conˈsorter, noun
- conˈsortable, adjective
Other Words From
- con·sorta·ble adjective
- con·sorter noun
- con·sortion noun
- noncon·sorting adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of consort1
Example Sentences
That that’s a very important example and it exists in consort with what professional philanthropies are doing to be resourceful in other ways.
In some myths, he goes on to abduct Mokosh – the consort of Perun and the goddess of summer, thus suggesting the eternal struggle between life and death and winter and summer.
The grandson of Queen Elizabeth is “home,” as some put it, to attend the funeral of Prince Philip, the longest-serving consort in British history, who died “peacefully” on Friday, at Windsor Castle, two month’s shy of his 100th birthday.
As royal consort, Prince Philip had been at his wife’s side — actually two paces behind in public, as required by protocol — since she became the queen upon her father’s death in 1952.
Philip’s uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten—the closest to a real father he had—would later claim credit for putting the future queen together with her consort.
It was designed, with help from an architect and builder, by her consort Prince Albert.
Once in her stride, she turned her Moomin books into masterpieces of word in consort with image.
Like Queen Rania, she has made education a priority of her work as royal consort.
Jan continued to come and go as he pleased at FOB Delhi, free to carry weapons and to consort with his “tea boys.”
The voice phenomenon produced by Lees was instantly recognisable as that of the late Consort.
A consort was found for him in the royal family of France; and her beauty and grace gave him a languid pleasure.
Quarrel in her presence he could not, nor add one jot to the burden which he felt sure she must bear as the consort of such a man.
And presently I saw that our consort, the Dane, had slackened her speed, so that there was a mile of water between us astern.
Her establishment must also so far exceed that of a king or of a queen-consort, as being composed of ladies as well as gentlemen.
The Wasp, after her battle with the Avon, could not fight two more, so she sailed away and left them to attend to their consort.
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