comfort

Definitions


[ˈkʌmfət], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a state of physical ease and freedom from pain or constraint
(e.g: there is room for four people to travel in comfort)

- the easing or alleviation of a person's feelings of grief or distress
(e.g: a few words of comfort)

- a warm quilt


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (as a noun, in the senses ‘strengthening, support, consolation’; as a verb, in the senses ‘strengthen, give support, console’): from Old French confort (noun), conforter (verb), from late Latin confortare ‘strengthen’, from com- (expressing intensive force) + Latin fortis ‘strong’. The sense ‘something producing physical ease’ arose in the mid 17th century


[ˈkʌmfət], (Verb)

Definitions:
- ease the grief or distress of
(e.g: the victim was comforted by friends before being taken to hospital)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (as a noun, in the senses ‘strengthening, support, consolation’; as a verb, in the senses ‘strengthen, give support, console’): from Old French confort (noun), conforter (verb), from late Latin confortare ‘strengthen’, from com- (expressing intensive force) + Latin fortis ‘strong’. The sense ‘something producing physical ease’ arose in the mid 17th century




definition by Oxford Dictionaries