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consort

/noun kon-sawrt, verb kuhn-sawrt/US // noun ˈkɒn sɔrt, verb kənˈsɔrt //

配偶,伴侣,妃子,妃子们

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a husband or wife; spouse, especially of a reigning monarch.Compare prince consort, queen consort.
    • : one vessel or ship accompanying another.
    • : Music. a group of instrumentalists and singers who perform music, especially old music.a group of instruments of the same family, as viols, played in concert.
    • : a companion, associate, or partner: a confidant and consort of heads of state.
    • : accord or agreement.
    • : Obsolete. company or association.harmony of sounds.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to associate; keep company: to consort with known criminals.
    • : to agree or harmonize.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to associate, join, or unite.
    • : Obsolete. to accompany; espouse.to sound in harmony.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbbe friendly with; fraternize

Examples

  • The grandson of Queen Elizabeth is “home,” as some put it, to attend the funeral of Prince Philip, the longest-serving consort in British history, who died “peacefully” on Friday, at Windsor Castle, two month’s shy of his 100th birthday.

  • As royal consort, Prince Philip had been at his wife’s side — actually two paces behind in public, as required by protocol — since she became the queen upon her father’s death in 1952.

  • Philip’s uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten—the closest to a real father he had—would later claim credit for putting the future queen together with her consort.

  • Antara was born in an ashram, where her mother served, for a time, as the leader’s consort.

  • It was designed, with help from an architect and builder, by her consort Prince Albert.

  • Once in her stride, she turned her Moomin books into masterpieces of word in consort with image.

  • Like Queen Rania, she has made education a priority of her work as royal consort.

  • Jan continued to come and go as he pleased at FOB Delhi, free to carry weapons and to consort with his “tea boys.”

  • The voice phenomenon produced by Lees was instantly recognisable as that of the late Consort.

  • A consort was found for him in the royal family of France; and her beauty and grace gave him a languid pleasure.

  • Quarrel in her presence he could not, nor add one jot to the burden which he felt sure she must bear as the consort of such a man.

  • And presently I saw that our consort, the Dane, had slackened her speed, so that there was a mile of water between us astern.

  • Her establishment must also so far exceed that of a king or of a queen-consort, as being composed of ladies as well as gentlemen.

  • The Wasp, after her battle with the Avon, could not fight two more, so she sailed away and left them to attend to their consort.