Consist Meaning
/kənˈsɪst/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo be.
verbTo exist or be compatible.
Sentence Examples
Education does not consist simply in learning a lot of facts.
Education doesn't consist of learning a lot of facts.
CEFR Practice Quiz
A healthy breakfast should ____ of fruits, grains, and protein.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
To taste authentic, a traditional Greek salad must ____ of tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, olives, and feta cheese.
Word Origin & History
From Middle French consister, from Latin consistō (“stand together, stop, become hard or solid, agree with, continue, exist”), from com- (“together”) + sistō (“to cause to stand, stand”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Why doe they cover with so many lets, one over another, those parts where chiefly consisteth [translating loge] our pleasure and theirs?"
— 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 15, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
"District number twenty-five (25) shall consist the counties of Tompkins, Seneca and Yates."
— 1846, District School Journal for the State of New-York - Volume 7, page 183:
"[Homer] allows their characters such estimable qualities as could consist, and in truth generally do, with tender frailties."
— 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book VI”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, footnote:
"First, because it is granted by all divines, that hypothetical necessity, or necessity upon a supposition, may consist with liberty."
— 1841, “The” Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance:
"All things do not consist by Christ today, and all the way back to Adam all things have not consisted by Christ."
— 2010, Michael O'Buck, Eternal Life: A Question of Honor, →ISBN:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
A healthy breakfast should ____ of fruits, grains, and protein.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
To taste authentic, a traditional Greek salad must ____ of tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, olives, and feta cheese.