comfort

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Contentment, ease.

   “Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.”

   “But all was in vain: For having ranged up and down the Woods for ſome days, without finding the leaſt comfort to their hungry deſires, they were forced to return again unto the River. […] At laſt they arrived at the Coaſt of the Sea, where they found ſome comfort and relief to their former miſeries, and alſo means to ſeek more.”

   “How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!”

   “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.”

   “I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur”

2. (countable, uncountable)Something that offers comfort.

   “Coordinate term: glimmer (2020s, neologism; a happy moment)”

   “the comforts of home”

3. (countable, uncountable)A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.

   “We still have the spare tire? That's a comfort at least.”

4. (countable, uncountable)A cause of relief or satisfaction.

   “The outcome of the peace negotiations in Moscow in 1940 was a heavy blow to the young nation, but in the same time a great comfort: at least the independency was preserved.”

verb

1. (transitive)To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.

   “Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.”

   “Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.”

   “Light, above all things, excelleth in comforting the spirits of men.”

2. (obsolete)To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

   “God's own testimony […] doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.”

3. (obsolete)To assist or help; to aid.

   “I […] cannot help the noble chevalier: / God comfort him in this necessity!”

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable)A female given name.
3. (countable, uncountable)A place in the United States:
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