Playfellow vs Consort - What's the difference?
playfellow | consort | Related terms |
(dated) playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
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
Playfellow is a related term of consort.
As a noun playfellow
is (dated) playmate; companion for someone (especially children) to play with.As a proper noun consort is
a village in alberta, canada.playfellow
English
Noun
(en noun)- "I’ve brought you a new playfellow ," the Fairy said. "You must be very kind to him and teach him all he needs to know in Rabbitland, for he is going to live with you for ever and ever!"
- Now she was within ten feet of the two unsuspecting little playfellows --carefully she drew her hind feet well up beneath her body, the great muscles rolling under the beautiful skin.
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?