con·sort /ˈkɑnˌsɔrt/
配偶,夫妻(vi.)陪伴,結交,符合(vt.)使配對
Con·sort 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. --Dryden.
The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere. --Thakeray.
The snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort. --Darwin.
2. Naut. A ship keeping company with another.
3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. “By Heaven's consort.” --Fuller. “Working in consort.” --Hare.
Take it singly, and it carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different. --Atterbury.
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. --Spenser.
Lord, place me in thy consort. --Herbert.
5. Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments. [Obs.]
To make a sad consort';
Come, let us join our mournful song with theirs. --Spenser.
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.
Con·sort v. i. [imp. & p. p. Consorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Consorting.] To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with.
Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee? --Dryden.
Con·sort, v. t.
1. To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate.
He with his consorted Eve. --Milton.
For all that pleasing is to living ears
Was there consorted in one harmony. --Spenser.
He begins to consort himself with men. --Locke.
2. To attend; to accompany. [Obs.]
Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,
Shalt with him hence. --Shak.
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consort
n 1: the husband or wife of a reigning monarch
2: a family of similar musical instrument playing together
[syn: choir]
v 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]