• (RP) IPA: /ˈkʌmfətə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈkʌmfəɹtəɹ/

comforter (plural comforters)

1. A person who comforts someone who is suffering.

   Synonyms: consoler

   • 1598–1599 (first performance)​, William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, 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 V, scene i]:

     Let no comforter delight mine ear / But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.

2. (US) A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.

   Synonyms: duvet, (continental) quilt

3. (dated, mostly, UK) A woollen scarf for winter.
   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 29,

     […] round his neck he wore a flaming red worsted comforter, whereof the straggling ends peeped out beneath his threadbare Newmarket coat, which was very tight and buttoned all the way up.

   • 1881, Felix L. Oswald, “Physical Education,” Popular Science Monthly June, 1881, p. 148,

     The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight.

4. (UK, NZ, AU) A pacifier.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:pacifier

• French: consolateur
• German: Tröster
• Italian: consolatore, consolatrice
• Portuguese: consolador, confortador
• Russian: утеши́тель

• German: Bettdecke, Plumeau, Plümo
• Portuguese: colcha
• Russian: стёганый

• (RP) IPA: /ˈkʌmfətə/
• (America) IPA: /ˈkʌmfəɹtəɹ/

1. (Christianity) The Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost.

• See Holy Spirit.