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noun ˈkɒnsɔːtˈkɑnsɔrt 1A wife, husband, or companion, in particular the spouse of a reigning monarch. Queen Victoria and her consort, Prince Albert Example sentencesExamples - He had lost a fine wife, an elegant consort, a selfless companion.
- He was certainly closely acquainted with her before her marriage and, according to three 16th-cent. accounts, confessed to the king that she had been his mistress and was not fit to be a royal consort.
- Ceremonial royal funerals are for those members of the Royal Family who hold high military rank, for the consort of the sovereign and for the heir to the throne.
- Years ago, on a Royal tour of Canada, the Queen and her consort, the Duke of Edinburgh stopped in Bumcrack, Sask., for a Royal visit and state dinner.
- To think that the absence of the monarch and her consort would mean so much less attention at the Guildhall is ridiculous.
- If you wanted to be generous, you could explain away the Empress' comments by pointing to the fact that she is of a different generation, one where women played traditional roles and royal consorts dutifully obeyed centuries-old rules.
- This set of furniture was, therefore, certainly not made for a reigning monarch or consort, as has usually been assumed.
- Certain batik designs, like the parangrusak motif, are still considered sacred as they were specially designed for sultans, their consorts and crown princes.
- As the wife of the president, Mary spent lavishly and entertained on the scale of a royal consort.
- Three centuries later the history of Queen Adelaide again illustrated the importance of the role of the royal consort.
- To keep it manageable, readable and above all, entertaining, I've confined myself to reigning British monarchs only, not their various consorts and children; saving a few mostly present-day exceptions.
- In 1820 George IV's attempt to divorce his consort led to the royal family's dirty linen being washed in the courts.
- Queen Margrethe's consort, Prince Henrik, is French and very knowledgeable about culinary matters.
- Apart from the reign of William III, consorts of monarchs have had no constitutional significance whatsoever.
- Then he could ransom the princess back to the Queen Mother and her consort.
- Queen Victoria, her consort Prince Albert and the Royal children lined a balcony of Hull's premier hotel and waved to the crowds of children below dutifully singing the National Anthem.
- The couple have carefully sidestepped the issue; when he ascends the throne, she will be known as the princess consort.
- As Queen Anne's consort, Prince George would have felt very much at home with Dahl's portraits of court ladies.
- It was at this point that a North Malabar princess, the consort of the Chirakkal Raja, arrived for worship at the temple.
- It is one thing to live life as a movie star, under the constant glare of one kind of spotlight and restrictions in one's private life but quite another to be the consort of a reigning Prince and representing the citizens of an entire nation.
Synonyms partner, companion, mate, helpmate, helpmeet spouse, husband, wife 2A ship sailing in company with another. Example sentencesExamples - Westralia has re-established herself as the consort of choice when the going gets tough.
- There was need of haste, for the ship's consort was expected in a day or two.
- As his new consort he purchased from Governor King a small, colonial-built vessel, the Casuarina, to help him with the continued close charting of the coast.
- Tirpitz and her consorts had slipped northwards along the Norwegian coast, from where she and her consorts could wreak havoc on a convoy - or break out into the Atlantic to prowl with greater freedom.
- The heavy guns of the besieged ship and her consort boomed out time and again with no luck while the smaller defensive guns were unable to pierce the heavy shields - when they managed to land a hit that is.
- The first ship and its consorts attacked from the port stern and slightly below, and the second ship and its consorts attacked from the starboard bow and slightly above.
- Her consort found her two days later with all of the crew completely drunk on rum taken from the cargo.
- He was in no mood to risk a delay that might bring in the pirate ship's consort, which was daily expected, so he sent his men on board her that evening (Tuesday) and fired her.
verb ˈkɒnsɔːtˈkɑnsɔrt [no object]consort with1Habitually associate with (someone), typically with the disapproval of others. you chose to consort with the enemy Example sentencesExamples - He has appeased, prevaricated and pretended, maybe because he is a man of faith himself, with a Catholic wife who consorts with crystals.
- And here was a man who knowingly consorted with the enemy.
- Most did not consort with the enemy in a time of war.
- Residents speak of young girls consorting with aging foreign men for the opportunity to dine in restaurants and buy clothes - or perhaps to marry and go abroad.
- They drink too much, stay up too late, hang around dodgy parts of town and consort with older men.
- What does your mother-in-law think about these boys her daughter's husband consorts with?
- He shouldn't even be consorting with the servants!
- Since when did serious socialists consort with millionaire It-girls?
- Even investment banks (which will consort with anyone) suddenly decline to be associated with the former president.
- He prefers to go on as he came in - playing shabby politics, consorting with creatures from the abyss, contributing his miserable mite to the destruction of free government among us.
- A high-society events organiser who ignores the ongoing hordes of prostitutes and junior female staff consorting with her husband, she is a million miles away from being the long-suffering victim she could so easily be.
- My lovely and talented daughter is consorting with the enemy this year, so there should be some competition in the target-shooting and archery events.
- This explains why his students are a cultish clique, which is comfortable only when preaching to the converted and consorting with the like-minded.
- For here on, I will consider anyone consorting with these barbarians to be my enemy.
- Maybe he should have thought a little harder before consorting with the enemy.
- In pursuing their goals, leaders and locales might consort with both the United States and its enemies.
- After all, the whole point of a summer holiday is to check out from reality, and what could be better escapism than ten days consorting with a an exotic lover whom you're never going to see again?
- The fact that he was consorting with people arrested for football violence and seemed to be known for his activities by police when tens of thousands of ordinary fans were not, was also persuasive.
- He spent his time consorting with prostitutes, getting into fistfights, and scribbling his thoughts down on napkins, all in various stages of intoxication.
- It places much store on personal friendship and thus has not consorted with his political enemies.
Synonyms associate, keep company, mix, mingle, go around, spend time, socialize, fraternize, have dealings, rub shoulders North American rub elbows informal hobnob, run around, hang around/round, hang out, knock about/around, pal around, chum around, be thick British informal hang about - 1.1consort with/toarchaic Agree or be in harmony with.
it did not consort with his idea of scientific government
Origin Late Middle English (denoting a companion or colleague): via French from Latin consors 'sharing, partner', from con- 'together with' + sors, sort- 'lot, destiny'. The verb senses are probably influenced by similar senses (now obsolete) of the verb sort. Rhymes abort, apport, assort, athwart, aught, besought, bethought, bort, bought, brought, caught, cavort, comport, contort, Cort, court, distraught, escort, exhort, export, extort, fort, fought, fraught, import, methought, misreport, mort, naught, nought, Oort, ought, outfought, port, Porte, purport, quart, rort, short, snort, sort, sought, sport, support, swart, taught, taut, thought, thwart, tort, transport, wart, wrought noun ˈkɒnsɔːtˈkɑnsɔrt A small group of musicians performing together, typically playing instrumental music of the Renaissance period. as modifier an anthology of Tudor consort music Example sentencesExamples - Other timbres no longer carry their original significance: cornets for dignitaries not high enough in rank to merit trumpets, hautboys for banquets, consorts of flutes or recorders for rituals of death and transfiguration.
- They decided to explore renaissance consort music in the form of recorder trio with lute.
- At first, the likelihood that broken consort music would be audible from behind curtains seemed small - unless the fabric was very fine, which is why so few productions adopted curtains.
- The close relationship between the consort song and the Elizabethan verse anthem makes it at least possible that both genres began with the same scoring: voices and viols.
- Their great finesse and qualities of ensemble were displayed in works ranging from Elizabethan consort music to the Hungarian avant-garde.
- This is not an idiomatic organ part but a reduction of a consort texture, almost certainly in five real parts throughout.
- Moreover, given that violin consorts at the time usually played in four or five parts while wind consorts tended to play in six, it is likely that the instruments intended were the former rather than the latter.
- He employed five violists, two keyboard players, a consort of singers, and he had at least four organs at the time of his death in 1612.
- Based in Amsterdam, The Fortuna Consort is an early music group exploring renaissance consort music in the form of recorder trio and lute.
- This is a new consort still deciding on its identity, so the concert was very much a case of ‘interim report on work in progress’.
- By the same token, the unspecified six-part ritornelli in Dixit dominus may well be intended for a wind consort.
- The first half of the concert features the singers performing madrigals, interspersed with instrumental music of the same period - mostly played by recorder consort.
- Some more consort music is known from other sources, but there is not much of it, and this book is concerned only with the contents of the 1604 edition.
- Music specifically for viol consorts became increasingly sophisticated, with elaborate contrapuntal fantasias or ‘Fancies’.
- For singers, these intensive weeks offer classes in sight-reading, aural tests and consort singing, and advice on choral scholarships receives a high priority.
- Stylistically, the program goes many different places - from Gabrieli-like polyphony for the chorus, brass, and organ, to intimate interludes for string consorts.
- The pitch and scoring of the verse-anthem adaptation of the consort song present some serious problems.
- The consort will be performing excerpts from JS Bach's Christmas Oratorio with organ, trumpets and timpani.
- Music ranges from ball-room to Klezmer, from pop to classics; people have even been known to entertain with a consort of viols, but this is too quiet for most tastes.
- This strongly implies that even in the Durham version the verse material, as in the original consort song, was meant to be sung by a treble.
Origin Late 16th century: earlier form of concert. nounˈkänsôrtˈkɑnsɔrt 1A wife, husband, or companion, in particular the spouse of a reigning monarch. Example sentencesExamples - It was at this point that a North Malabar princess, the consort of the Chirakkal Raja, arrived for worship at the temple.
- It is one thing to live life as a movie star, under the constant glare of one kind of spotlight and restrictions in one's private life but quite another to be the consort of a reigning Prince and representing the citizens of an entire nation.
- Queen Victoria, her consort Prince Albert and the Royal children lined a balcony of Hull's premier hotel and waved to the crowds of children below dutifully singing the National Anthem.
- If you wanted to be generous, you could explain away the Empress' comments by pointing to the fact that she is of a different generation, one where women played traditional roles and royal consorts dutifully obeyed centuries-old rules.
- Years ago, on a Royal tour of Canada, the Queen and her consort, the Duke of Edinburgh stopped in Bumcrack, Sask., for a Royal visit and state dinner.
- He had lost a fine wife, an elegant consort, a selfless companion.
- The couple have carefully sidestepped the issue; when he ascends the throne, she will be known as the princess consort.
- This set of furniture was, therefore, certainly not made for a reigning monarch or consort, as has usually been assumed.
- As the wife of the president, Mary spent lavishly and entertained on the scale of a royal consort.
- To keep it manageable, readable and above all, entertaining, I've confined myself to reigning British monarchs only, not their various consorts and children; saving a few mostly present-day exceptions.
- In 1820 George IV's attempt to divorce his consort led to the royal family's dirty linen being washed in the courts.
- To think that the absence of the monarch and her consort would mean so much less attention at the Guildhall is ridiculous.
- Three centuries later the history of Queen Adelaide again illustrated the importance of the role of the royal consort.
- Ceremonial royal funerals are for those members of the Royal Family who hold high military rank, for the consort of the sovereign and for the heir to the throne.
- Then he could ransom the princess back to the Queen Mother and her consort.
- Certain batik designs, like the parangrusak motif, are still considered sacred as they were specially designed for sultans, their consorts and crown princes.
- Queen Margrethe's consort, Prince Henrik, is French and very knowledgeable about culinary matters.
- As Queen Anne's consort, Prince George would have felt very much at home with Dahl's portraits of court ladies.
- He was certainly closely acquainted with her before her marriage and, according to three 16th-cent. accounts, confessed to the king that she had been his mistress and was not fit to be a royal consort.
- Apart from the reign of William III, consorts of monarchs have had no constitutional significance whatsoever.
Synonyms partner, companion, mate, helpmate, helpmeet - 1.1 A ship sailing in company with another.
Example sentencesExamples - The first ship and its consorts attacked from the port stern and slightly below, and the second ship and its consorts attacked from the starboard bow and slightly above.
- Westralia has re-established herself as the consort of choice when the going gets tough.
- As his new consort he purchased from Governor King a small, colonial-built vessel, the Casuarina, to help him with the continued close charting of the coast.
- He was in no mood to risk a delay that might bring in the pirate ship's consort, which was daily expected, so he sent his men on board her that evening (Tuesday) and fired her.
- Her consort found her two days later with all of the crew completely drunk on rum taken from the cargo.
- There was need of haste, for the ship's consort was expected in a day or two.
- Tirpitz and her consorts had slipped northwards along the Norwegian coast, from where she and her consorts could wreak havoc on a convoy - or break out into the Atlantic to prowl with greater freedom.
- The heavy guns of the besieged ship and her consort boomed out time and again with no luck while the smaller defensive guns were unable to pierce the heavy shields - when they managed to land a hit that is.
verbˈkänsôrtˈkɑnsɔrt [no object]consort with1Habitually associate with (someone), typically with the disapproval of others. you chose to consort with the enemy Example sentencesExamples - He spent his time consorting with prostitutes, getting into fistfights, and scribbling his thoughts down on napkins, all in various stages of intoxication.
- And here was a man who knowingly consorted with the enemy.
- A high-society events organiser who ignores the ongoing hordes of prostitutes and junior female staff consorting with her husband, she is a million miles away from being the long-suffering victim she could so easily be.
- The fact that he was consorting with people arrested for football violence and seemed to be known for his activities by police when tens of thousands of ordinary fans were not, was also persuasive.
- It places much store on personal friendship and thus has not consorted with his political enemies.
- Most did not consort with the enemy in a time of war.
- What does your mother-in-law think about these boys her daughter's husband consorts with?
- My lovely and talented daughter is consorting with the enemy this year, so there should be some competition in the target-shooting and archery events.
- This explains why his students are a cultish clique, which is comfortable only when preaching to the converted and consorting with the like-minded.
- After all, the whole point of a summer holiday is to check out from reality, and what could be better escapism than ten days consorting with a an exotic lover whom you're never going to see again?
- He prefers to go on as he came in - playing shabby politics, consorting with creatures from the abyss, contributing his miserable mite to the destruction of free government among us.
- For here on, I will consider anyone consorting with these barbarians to be my enemy.
- He has appeased, prevaricated and pretended, maybe because he is a man of faith himself, with a Catholic wife who consorts with crystals.
- They drink too much, stay up too late, hang around dodgy parts of town and consort with older men.
- In pursuing their goals, leaders and locales might consort with both the United States and its enemies.
- Even investment banks (which will consort with anyone) suddenly decline to be associated with the former president.
- Maybe he should have thought a little harder before consorting with the enemy.
- He shouldn't even be consorting with the servants!
- Since when did serious socialists consort with millionaire It-girls?
- Residents speak of young girls consorting with aging foreign men for the opportunity to dine in restaurants and buy clothes - or perhaps to marry and go abroad.
Synonyms associate, keep company, mix, mingle, go around, spend time, socialize, fraternize, have dealings, rub shoulders - 1.1consort with/toarchaic Agree or be in harmony with.
Origin Late Middle English (denoting a companion or colleague): via French from Latin consors ‘sharing, partner’, from con- ‘together with’ + sors, sort- ‘lot, destiny’. The verb senses are probably influenced by similar senses (now obsolete) of the verb sort. nounˈkänsôrtˈkɑnsɔrt A small group of musicians performing together, typically playing instrumental music of the Renaissance period. Example sentencesExamples - This is not an idiomatic organ part but a reduction of a consort texture, almost certainly in five real parts throughout.
- By the same token, the unspecified six-part ritornelli in Dixit dominus may well be intended for a wind consort.
- For singers, these intensive weeks offer classes in sight-reading, aural tests and consort singing, and advice on choral scholarships receives a high priority.
- Music ranges from ball-room to Klezmer, from pop to classics; people have even been known to entertain with a consort of viols, but this is too quiet for most tastes.
- This is a new consort still deciding on its identity, so the concert was very much a case of ‘interim report on work in progress’.
- At first, the likelihood that broken consort music would be audible from behind curtains seemed small - unless the fabric was very fine, which is why so few productions adopted curtains.
- Stylistically, the program goes many different places - from Gabrieli-like polyphony for the chorus, brass, and organ, to intimate interludes for string consorts.
- This strongly implies that even in the Durham version the verse material, as in the original consort song, was meant to be sung by a treble.
- The first half of the concert features the singers performing madrigals, interspersed with instrumental music of the same period - mostly played by recorder consort.
- Based in Amsterdam, The Fortuna Consort is an early music group exploring renaissance consort music in the form of recorder trio and lute.
- Their great finesse and qualities of ensemble were displayed in works ranging from Elizabethan consort music to the Hungarian avant-garde.
- Some more consort music is known from other sources, but there is not much of it, and this book is concerned only with the contents of the 1604 edition.
- The consort will be performing excerpts from JS Bach's Christmas Oratorio with organ, trumpets and timpani.
- The pitch and scoring of the verse-anthem adaptation of the consort song present some serious problems.
- Moreover, given that violin consorts at the time usually played in four or five parts while wind consorts tended to play in six, it is likely that the instruments intended were the former rather than the latter.
- He employed five violists, two keyboard players, a consort of singers, and he had at least four organs at the time of his death in 1612.
- Music specifically for viol consorts became increasingly sophisticated, with elaborate contrapuntal fantasias or ‘Fancies’.
- The close relationship between the consort song and the Elizabethan verse anthem makes it at least possible that both genres began with the same scoring: voices and viols.
- They decided to explore renaissance consort music in the form of recorder trio with lute.
- Other timbres no longer carry their original significance: cornets for dignitaries not high enough in rank to merit trumpets, hautboys for banquets, consorts of flutes or recorders for rituals of death and transfiguration.
Origin Late 16th century: earlier form of concert. |