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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A husband or wife, especially the spouse of a monarch.
  2. n. A companion or partner.
  3. n. A ship accompanying another in travel.
  4. n. Partnership; association: governed in consort with her advisers.
  5. n. A group; a company: a consort of fellow diplomats.
  6. n. Music An instrumental ensemble.
  7. n. Music An ensemble using instruments of the same family.
  8. v. To keep company; associate: a politician known to consort with gangsters.
  9. v. To be in accord or agreement.
  10. v. To unite in company; associate.
  11. v. Obsolete To escort; accompany.
  12. v. Obsolete To espouse.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A companion; a partner; an intimate associate; particularly, a wife or a husband; a spouse.
  2. n. Nautical, a vessel keeping company with another, or one of a number of vessels sailing in conjunction
  3. To associate; unite in company; keep company; be in harmony: followed by with.
  4. To join; marry; espouse.
  5. To unite in company; associate: followed by with.
  6. To unite in symphony or harmony.
  7. To accompany.
  8. n. An assembly or company.
  9. n. Specifically A company of musicians; an orchestra.
  10. n. Concert; concurrence; agreement.
  11. n. A former spelling of concert, by confusion with consort.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The spouse of a monarch.
  2. n. A husband, wife, companion or partner.
  3. n. A ship accompanying another.
  4. n. Association or partnership.
  5. n. A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
  6. v. To associate or keep company.
  7. v. To be in agreement.
  8. v. To associate or unite in company with.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.
  2. n. A ship keeping company with another.
  3. n. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union.
  4. n. An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination.
  5. n. Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
  6. v. To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with.
  7. v. To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate.
  8. v. To attend; to accompany.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. keep company
  2. v. go together
  3. n. a family of similar musical instrument playing together
  4. n. the husband or wife of a reigning monarch
  5. v. keep company with; hang out with

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, colleague, from Old French, from Latin cōnsors, cōnsort- : com-, com- + sors, fate; see ser-2 in Indo-European roots.

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