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Definition of Consort

1. Noun. The husband or wife of a reigning monarch.

2. Verb. Keep company with; hang out with. "She affiliates with her colleagues"

3. Noun. A family of similar musical instrument playing together.

4. Verb. Go together. "Their ideas concorded"

5. Verb. Keep company. "The heifers run with the bulls to produce offspring"

Definition of Consort

1. n. One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.

2. v. i. To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with.

3. v. t. To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate.

Definition of Consort

1. Noun. The spouse of a monarch. ¹

2. Noun. A husband, wife, companion or partner. ¹

3. Noun. A ship accompanying another. ¹

4. Noun. Association or partnership. ¹

5. Noun. A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To associate or keep company. ¹

7. Verb. (intransitive) To be in agreement. ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive) To associate or unite in company with. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Consort

1. to keep company [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Consort

consonant system consonantal consonantal system consonantism consonantize consonantized consonantizes consonantizing consonantly consonantness

consonants consonate consonating rale consonous consopiation consort (current term) consortable consorted consortest consortia

consortial consorting consortion consortium consortiums consorts consortship consortships conspecific conspecificity

Literary usage of Consort

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Sir Adolphus William Ward (1911)
"Sicilies, consort of Francis П, xr 380 (of Bavaria), Queen of the Two Amalia (Archduchess), Empress, consort of Charles VII, vi 201 consort of Charles III, ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1879)
"It was characteristic of the Prince consort to find in each succeeding year a wider scope for his maturing experience and increasing influence ; to strike ..."

3. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1905)
"ON THE RIGHT OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK TO CROWN THE QUEEN-consort. ... The rule then of the Forma et modus is clear : the Queen-consort is to be crowned, ..."

4. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"chased it of his consort at the price of ten thousand pounds: finding it ... Another ancient perquisite belonging to the queen consort, mentioned by all our ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"He was given as consort Nin-A, a Sumerian deity originally male, ... His consort was Shala, never an important deity, and her ideograph could represent also ..."

6. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1890)
"Mrs Mary Rawson, consort of Mr David Rawson Esq. April. ... Mrs Judith Swift consort of Mr Ebenezer Swift aged 55 yeare. " 27. Mrs Sables consort of Mr John ..."

7. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1876)
"THE Second Portion of tlie ' Narrative of the Life of the Prince consort ' fulfils the rich promise of the first, and confirms the singular felicity which ..."

8. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1872)
"CHAPTER I. THE pencil of Lely has rendered every one familiar with the languishing dark eyes, classic features, and graceful form of the Italian consort of ..."

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