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Consort is a related term of intimate.


As a proper noun consort

is a village in alberta, canada.

As an adjective intimate is

closely acquainted; familiar.

As a noun intimate is

a very close friend.

As a verb intimate is

to suggest or disclose discreetly.

consort

English

Noun

  • The spouse of a monarch.
  • A husband, wife, companion or partner.
  • * Dryden
    • He single chose to live, and shunned to wed, / Well pleased to want a consort of his bed.
  • * Thackeray
    • The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere.
  • * Darwin
    • the snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort
  • A ship accompanying another.
  • (uncountable) Association or partnership.
  • * Atterbury
    • Take it singly, and it carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different.
  • A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
  • * Spenser
    • In one consort there sat / Cruel revenge and rancorous despite, / Disloyal treason, and heart-burning hate.
  • * Herbert
    • Lord, place me in thy consort .
  • (obsolete) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
  • * Spenser
    • 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, group

    Verb

    (en 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.
  • To be in agreement.
  • To associate or unite in company with.
  • * Dryden
    • Which of the Grecian chiefs consorts with thee?

    Synonyms

    * (associate or keep company) hang out (slang) * (be in agreement) agree, concur * (associate or unite in company with) associate, hang out (slang)

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    intimate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Closely acquainted; familiar.
    • an intimate friend
    He and his sister deeply valued their intimate relationship as they didn't have much else to live for.
  • Of or involved in a sexual relationship.
    • She enjoyed some intimate time alone with her husband.
  • Personal; private.
    • an intimate setting

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very close friend.
    • Only a couple of intimates had ever read his writing.
  • (in plural intimates ) Women's underwear, sleepwear, or lingerie, especially offered for sale in a store.
    • You'll find bras and panties in the women's intimates section upstairs.

    Synonyms

    * (close friend) bosom buddy, bosom friend, cater-cousin

    Verb

    (intimat)
  • To suggest or disclose discreetly.
  • * '>citation
    •     The Kaiser beamed. Von Bulow had praised him. Von Bulow had exalted him and humbled himself. The Kaiser could forgive anything after that. "Haven't I always told you," he exclaimed with enthusiasm, "that we complete one another famously? We should stick together, and we will!"
        [...]
        Von Bulow saved himself in time—but, canny diplomat that he was, he nevertheless had made one error: he should have begun by talking about his own shortcomings and Wilhelm's superiority—not by intimating that the Kaiser was a half-wit in need of a guardian.
    He intimated that we should leave before the argument escalated.

    Related terms

    * intimacy * intimation

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