comforter

See also: Comforter

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  confortour, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French conforter. See comfort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌmfətə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌmfəɹtəɹ/

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Noun

comforter (plural comforters)

1. A person who comforts someone who is suffering.

   Synonym: consoler

   • Shakespeare

     Let no comforter delight mine ear / But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.

   • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 511:

     The comforters, relaxed in sarongs after the day's work, kicked off their sandals at the top of Syed Omar's steps and made their obeisances to the wives, to the elder children, and to the gloomy head of the house.

2. (US) A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.

   Synonyms: duvet, (continental) quilt

3. (dated, chiefly UK) A woollen scarf for winter.
   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 29,^[1]

     […] round his neck he wore a flaming red worsted comforter, whereof the straggling ends peeped out beneath his threadbare Newmarket coat, which was very tight and buttoned all the way up.

   • 1881, Felix L. Oswald, “Physical Education,” Popular Science Monthly June, 1881, p. 148,^[2]

     The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight.

   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Fate of the Artemis‎^[3]:

     “ […] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […] ”

4. (UK, New Zealand, Australia) A pacifier.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pacifier

Translations

person who comforts

• Bulgarian: утеши́тел m (utešítel)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 保惠師／保惠师 (zh), 保惠师 (zh) (bǎohuìshī)

• Finnish: lohduttaja (fi)
• French: consolateur (fr)
• German: Tröster m
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• Hungarian: vigasztaló
• Italian: consolatore m, consolatrice f
• Latin: consōlātor m
• Polish: pocieszyciel (pl) m, pocieszycielka (pl) f
• Portuguese: consolador m, confortador m
• Russian: утеши́тель (ru) m (utešítelʹ), утеши́тельница (ru) f (utešítelʹnica)

padded cover — see also duvet,‎ quilt,‎ continental quilt

• Bulgarian: юрган (bg) m (jurgan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 棉被 (zh) (miánbèi), 棉被 (zh) (miánbèi)

• Finnish: peite (fi), peitto (fi), talvipeitto, untuvapeite
• German: Bettdecke (de) f, Plumeau (de) n, Plümo n
• Greek: πάπλωμα (el) n (páploma)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: ,

  Sorani: لێفە (lêfe)

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• Macedonian: јорган m (jorgan)
• Navajo: golchóón
• Portuguese: colcha (pt) f
• Russian: стёганое ва́тное одея́ло n (stjóganoje vátnoje odejálo)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: јорган m

  Roman: jorgan (sh) m

• Turkish: yorgan (tr)
• Vietnamese: nước xả quần áo

pacifier — see pacifier

Anagrams

• recomfort