Consort vs Consortship - What's the difference?
consort | consortship |
The spouse of a monarch.
A husband, wife, companion or partner.
* Dryden
* Thackeray
* Darwin
A ship accompanying another.
(uncountable) Association or partnership.
* Atterbury
A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
* Spenser
* Herbert
(obsolete) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
* Spenser
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,
To be in agreement.
To associate or unite in company with.
* Dryden
As a proper noun consort
is a village in alberta, canada.As a noun consortship is
the condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership.consort
English
Noun
- 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
- Take it singly, and it carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different.
- In one consort there sat / Cruel revenge and rancorous despite, / Disloyal treason, and heart-burning hate.
- Lord, place me in thy consort .
- To make a sad consort , / Come, let us join our mournful song with theirs.
- (Milton)
Synonyms
* companion, escort * (sense) association, partnership * (group of musicians) band, groupVerb
(en verb)- Being itself inferior and consorting with an inferior faculty it begets inferior offspring.
- Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee?
