• (British) IPA: /ˈkʌm.fət/
• (America) enPR: kŭm'fərt, IPA: /ˈkʌm.fəɹt/, [ˈkʰʌɱ.fɚt]
• (obsolete) enPR: kŭmfôrt', IPA: /kʌmˈfɔɹt/

comfort

1. Contentment, ease.

   Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.

2. Something that offers comfort.

   the comforts of home

3. A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.

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

4. 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.

• liss

• (contentment, ease) austerity

• French: confort
• German: Behaglichkeit, Bequemlichkeit, Komfort
• Portuguese: conforto
• Russian: удо́бство
• Spanish: comodidad

• German: Trost, Tröstung
• Portuguese: conforto, consolo
• Russian: утеше́ние
• Spanish: consuelo

• German: Trost, Tröstung
• Portuguese: conforto, consolo
• Russian: уте́ха

comfort (comforts, present participle comforting; past and past participle comforted)

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

   Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Psalms 86:17–Lord}}, hast holpen me, and comfoꝛted me. ↗:

     Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, {{smallcaps

   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries

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

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

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

4. (obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.
   • 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:

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

• besoothe

• French: consoler
• German: trösten, ermutigen
• Portuguese: confortar, reconfortar
• Russian: успока́ивать
• Spanish: confortar

• German: trösten, ermutigen

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