Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One that comforts: the nurse as comforter of the sick.
- n. Christianity The Holy Spirit.
- n. A quilted bedcover.
- n. A narrow, long, typically woolen neck scarf.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A person who comforts someone who is suffering.
- n. A padded cover or quilt for a bed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who administers comfort or consolation.
- n. The Holy Spirit, -- referring to his office of comforting believers.
- n. A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow.
- n. A wadded bedquilt; a comfortable.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who comforts or consoles; one who supports and strengthens the mind in distress, danger, or weakness.
- n. [capitalized] The Holy Spirit, whose office it is to comfort, strengthen, and support the Christian.
- n. A knitted or crocheted woolen scarf, long and narrow, for tying round the neck in cold weather.
- n. Same as comfortable.
- n. A boil: in allusion to those with which Job is supposed to have been afflicted.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies
- n. bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
- n. device used for an infant to suck or bite on
- n. commiserates with someone who has had misfortune
Etymologies
Examples
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I could be wrong about this, but I always thought the duvet was meant to slip inside of a cover, while the comforter is already decorative and is meant to be used as is.
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This comforter is the Spirit of truth, whom you know, v. 16, 17.
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If a comforter is used, cover it with an allergen-proof cover to keep the mites out.
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I have new sheets and new pillows (my new comforter is back-ordered, but enroute) and I begin to understand Brian Wilson's point.
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Mostly, I cling to blankets in the summertime because the comforter is hot, heavy, and a bear to wash if anything spills on it.
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And the socialised home of the future, living, provident, kindly; educator and comforter; is the true and worthy home of those human mates who wish to better the species, and to send the race forward triumphant into the eternity of life!
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She had insisted upon his learning his catechism, and attending church twice every Sunday, and she had knitted him a comforter, the material being that harsh and scrubby worsted which makes the word comforter a sound of derision.
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The Spirit, as a comforter, is the earnest of our inheritance.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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In my exhaustion, naivete, or hopefulness (or all three), I imagined the man in the comforter was a mentally ill relative who the man in jeans was trying to stop and help.
Farai Chideya: Obama Year One: Good for the Journalists? A Story of Fear and Hope.
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And then I find myself burrowing under what the English would call a duvet and the Americans would call a comforter.
chained_bear commented on the word comforter
In the Bewick book, the illustration appears to be a spaniel of some kind (actually looks quite like a King Charles spaniel)...
August 26, 2008