consort

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, ultimately from Latin cōnsors.

noun

1. The spouse of a monarch.
   The consort of the queen has passed from this troubled sphere.
2. A husband, wife, companion or partner.
   the snow-white gander, invariably accompanied by his darker consort 1838, Charles Darwin, The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle
3. (euphemistic, sometimes humorous) An informal, usually well-publicized sexual companion of a monarch, aristocrat, celebrity, etc.
4. A ship accompanying another.
5. (uncountable) Association or partnership.
6. A group or company, especially of musicians playing the same type of instrument.
   Lord, place me in thy consort. 1633, George Herbert, Employment
7. (obsolete) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
   To make a sad consort, / Come, let us join our mournful song with theirs.

adj

1. (postpositive) of a title, by virtue of one's (living) spouse; often contrasted with regnant and dowager
   Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother took on nearly as many duties as queen dowager, after her husband's death, as she had had when she was queen consort during his reign.

verb

1. (intransitive) To associate or keep company (with).
   If there bee any lasie fellow, any that cannot away with worke, any that would wallow in pleasures, hee is hastie to be priested. And when hee is made one, and has gotten a benefice, he consorts with his neighbour priests, who are altogether given to pleasures; and then both hee, and they, live, not like Christians, but like epicures; drinking, eating, feasting, and revelling, till the cow come home, as the saying is. 1610, Alexander Cooke, Pope Joane, in William Oldys, editor, The Harleian Miscellany: or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library: Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes: With a Table of the Contents, and an Alphabetical Index, volume IV, London: Printed for T[homas] Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1744, OCLC 5325177; republished as John Maltham, editor, The Harleian Miscellany; or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library, Interspersed with Historical, Political, and Critical Notes, volume IV, London: Printed for R. Dutton, 1808–1811, OCLC 30776079, page 95
   Being itself inferior and consorting with an inferior faculty it begets inferior offspring. 1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume 92, page 457
2. (intransitive) To be in agreement.