Dictionary Definition
consort
Noun
1 the husband or wife of a reigning monarch
2 a family of similar musical instrument playing
together [syn: choir]
Verb
1 keep company with; hang out with; "He
associates with strange people"; "She affiliates with her
colleagues" [syn: associate, affiliate, assort]
2 go together; "The colors don't harmonize";
"Their ideas concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, accord, concord, fit in, agree]
3 keep company; "the heifers run with the bulls
ot produce offspring" [syn: run]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- The spouse of a monarch.
- A husband, wife, companion or partner.
- A ship accompanying another.
- Association or partnership.
- A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
Synonyms
Translations
spouse of a monarch
husband, wife, companion or partner
ship accompanying another
association or partnership
group or company, especially of musicians
playing the same type of instrument
Verb
- To associate or
keep company.
- 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,"
Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological
Association, vol. 92, p. 457,
- Being itself inferior and consorting with an inferior faculty it begets inferior offspring.
- 1961, J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,"
Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological
Association, vol. 92, p. 457,
- To be in agreement.
- To associate or unite in company with.
Synonyms
- i-c associate or keep company hang out (slang)
- i-c be in agreement agree, concur
- associate, hang out (slang)
Translations
associate or keep company
be in agreement
associate or unite in company with
Extensive Definition
A consort is a spouse, usually of royalty or
of a deity, sometimes slightly inferior in function/status.
- Queen consort, wife of a reigning king
- King consort, husband of a reigning queen
- Prince consort, alternative title for husband of a reigning queen
- Princess consort, alternative title for wife of a reigning king
In Canada:
- List of Royal Consorts of Canada, spouses of Canadian monarchs
- Consort clan, family of the Chinese Emperor's wife or mother
- Imperial consorts of Tang China (618-907)
- List of British consorts, spouses of British monarchs
Consort may also refer to:
- Consort of instruments, archaic term for instrumental ensembles
- Consort beagles, a British animal rights campaign
- CONSORT statement, reporting standards for clinical trials
consort in Norwegian: Gemal
consort in Swedish: Gemål
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accompanier, accompanist, accompanyist, accord, accordance, ace, adjunct, affinity, agreement, ally, amigo, assent, associate, attendant, attune, attunement, bedfellow, bedmate, better half, bosom
buddy, brother,
brother-in-arms, buddy,
bunkie, bunkmate, butty, camarade, chamberfellow, chime, chiming, chorus, chum, classmate, coadjutor, coherence, cohort, coincidence, colleague, comate, companion, companion piece,
company, compatibility, compatriot, compeer, comport, comrade, concentus, concert, concomitant, concord, concordance, confederate, conform, conformance, conformation, conformity, confrere, congeniality, congruence, congruency, congruity, consistency, consociate, consonance, consonancy, cooperation, copartner, correspond, correspondence, crony, diapason, dovetail, equivalence, euphony, fellow, fellow member, fellow
student, girl friend, gossip, harmonics, harmonize, harmony, heavy harmony, homophony, intersection, march, mate, messmate, monochord, monody, old crony, oneness, overlap, pal, parallelism, pard, pardner, partner, peace, playfellow, playmate, rapport, roommate, schoolfellow, schoolmate, self-consistency,
shipmate, side partner,
sidekick, spouse, square, symmetry, symphony, sync, synchronism, synchronization,
tally, teammate, three-part harmony,
timing, tune, uniformity, union, unison, unisonance, workfellow, yokefellow, yokemate