solace
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
solace
- Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress.
- You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace.
- A source of comfort or consolation.
- The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion.
- French: consolation, réconfort
- German: Trost
- Italian: consolazione, conforto
- Portuguese: consolo
- Russian: утеше́ние
- Spanish: consuelo, solaz
- French: consolation, réconfort
- German: Trost
- Italian: consolazione, conforto
- Portuguese: consolo
- Spanish: consuelo
solace (solaces, present participle solacing; past and past participle solaced)
- (transitive) To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.
- (transitive) To allay or assuage.
- (intransitive) To take comfort; to be cheered.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, IV. v. 48:
- But one thing to rejoice and solace in, / And cruel death hath catched it from my sight.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, IV. v. 48:
- French: soulager, consoler
- German: trösten
- Portuguese: consolar, reconfortar
- Russian: утеша́ть
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