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Consort   /kənsˈɔrt/   Listen
noun
Consort  n.  
1.
One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband. "He single chose to live, and shunned to wed, Well pleased to want a consort of his bed." "The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere." "The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort."
2.
(Naut.) A ship keeping company with another.
3.
Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." "Working in consort." "Take it singly, and it carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different."
4.
An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination. (Obs.) "In one consort' there sat Cruel revenge and rancorous despite, Disloyal treason, and heart-burning hate." "Lord, place me in thy consort."
5.
Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments. (Obs.) "To make a sad consort'; Come, let us join our mournful song with theirs."
Prince consort, the husband of a queen regnant.
Queen consort, the wife of a king, as distinguished from a queen regnant, who rules alone, and a queen dowager, the window of a king.



verb
Consort  v. t.  
1.
To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate. "He with his consorted Eve." "For all that pleasing is to living ears Was there consorted in one harmony." "He begins to consort himself with men."
2.
To attend; to accompany. (Obs.) "Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, Shalt with him hence."



Consort  v. i.  (past & past part. consorted; pres. part. consorting)  To unite or to keep company; to associate; used with with. "Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee?"






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"Consort" Quotes from Famous Books



... more of that," his father said. "Up to the present you have been but a child, but it is time now that you should cease to consort with village boys and prepare for another station in life. They may be good boys—I know naught about them—but they are not fit associates for you. I am not blaming you," he said more kindly as he saw the boy's face fall. "It was natural that you, having no associates of your own rank, should ...
— A March on London • G. A. Henty

... life. His only daughter was the first wife of Agrippa, the minister of Augustus, and his grand-daughter was married to Tiberius. Both of these ladies were divorced to make room for a consort of higher rank, who, curiously enough, was in both cases Julia, the infamous daughter of Augustus. Both, we may well believe, were regretted by ...
— Roman life in the days of Cicero • Alfred J[ohn] Church

... wrote immediately after their wedding to Dr. Nacquart in which he described with such pomp the different high qualities, merits, and last but not least, brilliant positions occupied by his wife's relatives, beginning with Queen Marie Leszczinska, the consort of Louis XV, and ending with the husband of my father's stepdaughter, Count Orloff, whom the widest stretch of imagination could not have connected ...
— Women in the Life of Balzac • Juanita Helm Floyd

... induced a poor, silly little fool named Rose Trevor to leave the dance hall where she worked, and go with you. You were one of those who believe that women are made to be brutalized. But good as most of them are, and bad as some of them are, there is none, living or dead, that you are or were fit to consort with. You murdered her. Don't you dare to deny it! They found her dead outside of your cabin. They arrested you, and tried you, and should have hanged you, but they couldn't get the proof of what ...
— The Plunderer • Roy Norton

... assuring the assembly that the King of Spain desired nothing so much as the peace of France and of all the world, together with the supremacy of the Roman Church. Whether these objects could best be attained by the election of Philip or of his daughter, as sovereign, with the Archduke Ernest as king-consort, or with perhaps the Duke of Guise or some other eligible husband, were fair subjects for discussion. No selfish motive influenced the king, and he placed all his wealth and all his armies at the disposal of the League to carry out ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley


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