consort

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Borrowed from Middle French, ultimately from Latin cōnsors. As “companion or partner”, via Middle English consorte.

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consort (countable and uncountable, plural consorts)

  1. The spouse of a monarch.
    • 1862 January, [William Makepeace Thackeray], “Roundabout Papers.—No. XVIII. On Letts’s Diary.”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume V, number 25, London: Smith, Elder and Co., [], page 128:
      Wise, just, moderate, admirably pure of life, the friend of science, of freedom, of peace and all peaceful arts, the Consort of the Queen passes from our troubled sphere to that serene one where justice and peace reign eternal.
  2. A husband, wife, companion or partner.
    • 1839, Charles Darwin, chapter XII, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, [], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC, page 257:
      In the deep and retired channels of Tierra del Fuego, the snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort, and standing close by each other on some distant rocky point, is a common feature in the landscape.
  3. (euphemistic, sometimes humorous) An informal, usually well-publicized sexual companion of a monarch, aristocrat, celebrity, etc.
  4. A ship accompanying another.
  5. (uncountable) Association or partnership.
    • 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to Some Considerations on the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation; [], Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] [Sheldonian] Theater, →OCLC, page 22:
      That which gives diſtaſt to the Ear in it is a German by-word: and ſuch kind of things Lr. according to the humor of thoſe times, purſues with ſome fondneſs: take it ſingly, and it carries an air of levity, I confeſs; but, in conſort with the reſt, you ſee, has a meaning quite different from what this Author would inſinuate.
  6. A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
  7. (obsolete) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.

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consort (not comparable)

  1. (postpositive) of a title, by virtue of one's (living) spouse; often contrasted with regnant and dowager
    Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother took on nearly as many duties as queen dowager, after her husband's death, as she had had when she was queen consort during his reign.

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consort (third-person singular simple present consorts, present participle consorting, simple past and past participle consorted)

  1. (intransitive) To associate or keep company (with).
  2. (intransitive) To be in agreement.

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Borrowed from Latin cōnsors.

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consort m or f by sense (plural consorts)

  1. partner, consort
  2. (law) spouse
    Synonym: cònjuge
  3. (law) accomplice
    Synonym: partícip
  4. (law) joinder
    Synonym: litisconsort

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French

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Borrowed from Latin cōnsortem.

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consort f (plural consorts)

  1. consort
  2. (plural only, preceded by et, slightly derogatory) minions, associates; the likes
    Facebook, Myspace et consorts.
    Facebook, Myspace and the likes.

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Romanian

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Borrowed from French consort, from Latin consors.

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consort m (plural consorți)

  1. consort

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