solace.

1. Comfort or relief offered to someone experiencing grief, disappointment, or trouble.

2. To give comfort or consolation to someone in distress.

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Words that belong together

• find solace in
• offer solace

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She found solace in tending the neglected garden.

The old melody offered a little solace after the letter.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural solaces for particular sources of comfort. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: solaces.