MEANING
1. To keep company or associate with someone, often a group regarded with suspicion or disapproval.
2. The spouse of a reigning sovereign, who does not reign by that title alone.
3. A group of instruments or voices performing together, especially in early music.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- consort with strangers
- consort with enemies
On the page
He was accused of consorting with smugglers because he knew their names.
She continued to consort with the dissidents after the meetings were banned.
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Word forms
- Base
- consort
- Past tense
- consorted
- Past participle
- consorted
- Present participle
- consorting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- consort
- Present continuous
- am/is/are consorting
- Present perfect
- have/has consorted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been consorting
- Past
- consorted
- Past continuous
- was/were consorting
- Past perfect
- had consorted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been consorting
- Future
- will consort
- Future continuous
- will be consorting
- Future perfect
- will have consorted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been consorting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: psychological / character. Forms: consort; consorts; consorted; consorted; consorting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: consorts.
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