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CONSORT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does consort mean?
• CONSORT (noun)
The noun CONSORT has 2 senses:
1. the husband or wife of a reigning monarch
2. a family of similar musical instrument playing together
Familiarity information: CONSORT used as a noun is rare.
• CONSORT (verb)
The verb CONSORT has 3 senses:
1. keep company with; hang out with
2. go together
3. keep company
Familiarity information: CONSORT used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The husband or wife of a reigning monarch
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("consort" is a kind of...):
better half; married person; mate; partner; spouse (a person's partner in marriage)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "consort"):
prince consort (a prince who is the husband of a reigning female sovereign)
Instance hyponyms:
Francoise d'Aubigne; Madame de Maintenon; Maintenon; Marquise de Maintenon (French consort of Louis XIV who secretly married the king after the death of his first wife (1635-1719))
Derivation:
consort (keep company)
consort (keep company with; hang out with)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A family of similar musical instrument playing together
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
choir; consort
Hypernyms ("consort" is a kind of...):
set (a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used)
| Conjugation: |
Past simple: consorted
Past participle: consorted
-ing form: consorting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Keep company with; hang out with
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
affiliate; associate; assort; consort
Context example:
She affiliates with her colleagues
Hypernyms (to "consort" is one way to...):
interact (act together or towards others or with others)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "consort"):
ally (become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage)
date; go out; go steady; see (date regularly; have a steady relationship with)
accompany; companion; company; keep company (be a companion to somebody)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Derivation:
consort (the husband or wife of a reigning monarch)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Go together
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
accord; agree; concord; consort; fit in; harmonise; harmonize
Context example:
Their ideas concorded
Hypernyms (to "consort" is one way to...):
agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)
Verb group:
agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "consort"):
coordinate (be co-ordinated)
blend; blend in; go (blend or harmonize)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Keep company
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
consort; run
Context example:
the heifers run with the bulls to produce offspring
Hypernyms (to "consort" is one way to...):
accompany (go or travel along with)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Derivation:
consort (the husband or wife of a reigning monarch)
Context examples
By this time the schooner and her little consort were gliding pretty swiftly through the water; indeed, we had already fetched up level with the camp-fire.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Men, intelligent men, and not the gibbering nonentities I found you consorting with in that trader's den.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When he hath come, and when our fair consort is recovered in her health, which I trust by the grace of God may be ere many weeks be past, we shall then join the army at Dax, and set our banners to the breeze once more.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One day his imperial majesty, being informed of my way of living, desired that himself and his royal consort, with the young princes of the blood of both sexes, might have the happiness, as he was pleased to call it, of dining with me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“Dr. Livesey,” he said, “in how many weeks do you and squire expect the consort?”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Whereas, by a statute made in the reign of his imperial majesty Calin Deffar Plune, it is enacted, that, whoever shall make water within the precincts of the royal palace, shall be liable to the pains and penalties of high-treason; notwithstanding, the said Quinbus Flestrin, in open breach of the said law, under colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his majesty’s most dear imperial consort, did maliciously, traitorously, and devilishly, by discharge of his urine, put out the said fire kindled in the said apartment, lying and being within the precincts of the said royal palace, against the statute in that case provided, etc. against the duty, etc.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The Ladies Lynn and Ingram continued to consort in solemn conferences, where they nodded their two turbans at each other, and held up their four hands in confronting gestures of surprise, or mystery, or horror, according to the theme on which their gossip ran, like a pair of magnified puppets.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
And maybe, perhaps, you didn't know there was a consort coming either?
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Strength is chiefly valued in the male, and comeliness in the female; not upon the account of love, but to preserve the race from degenerating; for where a female happens to excel in strength, a consort is chosen, with regard to comeliness.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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