Comfort Meaning
/ˈkʌm.fət/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounContentment, ease.
nounSomething that offers comfort.
Sentence Examples
The nurses must see to the comfort of their patients.
Bill just wanted to comfort Monica, but she interpreted it as romantic interest.
The hotel offers a high standard of comfort and service.
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After a long hike, I sought ____ by sitting near the warm fire.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English comfort, from Old French cunfort, confort, from the stem of Late Latin confortō. It replaced Old English frofor, Middle English frovre.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1684, chapter III, in Bucaniers of America: Or, A True Account of the Moſt Remarkable Aſſaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coaſts of the West-Indies, by Bucaniers of Jamica and Tortuga, Both English and French; Wherein are Contained More Eſpecially, the Unparallel'd Exploits of Sir Henry Morgan, Our Engliſh Jamaican Hero, who ſack'd Puerto Velo, Burnt Panama. &c [Part II], volume 1, London: Printed for William Crooke, translation of De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, […] by John Eſquemeling, page 30:
"How often is the comfort of a whole family abridged by some trifling circumstance, that ought not to have made a visible impression!"
— 1850, T. S. Arthur, “A Rise in the Butter Market”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 59:
"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."
— 1937 September 21, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “An Unexpected Party”, in The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, revised edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published February 1966 (August 1967 printing), →OCLC, page 15:
"I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur"
— 2024, “Hot One”, in King of the Mischievous South Vol. 2, performed by Denzel Curry:
"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."
— 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 86:17:
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After a long hike, I sought ____ by sitting near the warm fire.