consort:

(plural: ‘consorts‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”)

a consort of musicians

the legal spouse of a ruler, i.e. the wife of a ruling king or the husband of a ruling queen; (The husband of a ruling queen is usually called the ‘prince consort’ or less commonly, ‘king consort’.);

a partner; a companion; an associate;

a group of people of the same interests;

a group of musicians playing especially the same type of musical instruments;  a choir,

The Queen of Denmark & the Prince Consort

e.g.

HM Margrethe II, the Queen of Denmark, and Henrik, the Prince Consort, paid a visit to our country.

A consort of social activists is working on the issue of child labour and is pushing the government to make more stringent laws to punish those who encourage child labour.

There are several assorted consorts of international musicians that are touring  around the world to propagate the benefits of using condoms as the cheapest and easiest means to fight against HIV AIDS!

The word ‘consort’ is also used for a ship that goes with another as a guard ship. And as a verb ‘to consort’, it means ‘to be with’, ‘to go according to’, ‘to be in agreement with’, e.g. “Jane’s consorting with some hooligans these days; don’t know what’s going to happen to her.”
For an item of news the present UK consort Prince Philip winning an award, please click here. For an interesting article on the website of the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc., on how to be a consort, please click here, and for an item of news on a website called ‘The Toronto Consort’ that show how this word is used in the music field, please click here.

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