All 6 Uses of
consort
in
Romeo and Juliet
- Come, he hath hid himself among these trees,
To be consorted with the humorous night:
Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.
Scene 2.1 *consorted = spending time together
- Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo,— Mercutio.
Scene 3.1consortest = keeps companystandard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou consortest" in older English, today we say "You consort."
- Consort! what, dost thou make us minstrels?
Scene 3.1consort = keep company with
- Zounds, consort!
Scene 3.1consort = spend time together
- Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, Shalt with him hence.
Scene 3.1consort = accompany
- Who is it that consorts, so late, the dead?
Scene 5.3consorts = keeps company
Definition:
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(consort as in: consort together) associate with (spend time with) -- often spending leisure time with people considered undesirable; or one of the people with whom time is spent