comforter
Syllables: com·for·terUK/ˈkʌmfətə/US/ˈkʌmfɚtɚ/
comforter noun: a person who comforts someone who is suffering.
Noun
comforter (plural comforters)
- A person who comforts someone who is suffering.
- Let no comforter delight mine ear / But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- The comforters, relaxed in sarongs after the day's work, kicked off their sandals at the top of Syed Omar's steps and made their obeisances to the wives, to the elder children, and to the gloomy head of the house.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 511
- Synonyms:
- consoler
- A padded cover for a bed, duvet, continental quilt.
- A vast quilt or comforter was heaped beside the bed, in a broad puddle of congealed blood, thick and shiny on the patterned rugs.1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 185
- Synonyms:
- duvet, (continental) quilt
- A woollen scarf for winter.
- […] round his neck he wore a flaming red worsted comforter, whereof the straggling ends peeped out beneath his threadbare Newmarket coat, which was very tight and buttoned all the way up.1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “chapter 29”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC
- The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight.1881 June, Felix L. Oswald, “Physical Education”, in Popular Science Monthly, page 148
- A pacifier.
Proper noun capitalized: Comforter
the Comforter
- The Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost.
- In these words, with which the Gospel for this day commences, He speaks of the Comforter, the Spirit of truth, and of the Father, and of Himself1832, John Hall, Expository discourses on the Gospels for every Sunday in the year, page 33
- That this high- priestly office belongs only to the bishops, either to seal or to transmit the Comforter Spirit, is proved not only by Church usage1904, Arthur Crawshay Alliston Hall, Confirmation, page 43
- Synonyms:
- Holy Spirit
comforter meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Vietnamese
comforter in Tamil
- தேற்றரவாளி, பல்வகை நார் மெத்தை விரிப்பு, வன்புறை
comforter in Urdu
- غمگسار, غمخوار
comforter in Malayalam
- ആശ്വസിപ്പിക്കുന്നവൻ, പരിശുദ്ധാത്മാവ്, ആശ്വാസകൻ, സുഖദായൻ, മഫ്ളർ
comforter in Vietnamese
- padded cover
- nước xả quần áo
Examples of comforter in a sentence
- Only a Job's comforter would try to argue that yesterday's stock fall announcement could bring anything good.
- If you have a queen-size bed, you'll need some queen-size sheets to go on it, and maybe a queen-size comforter as well.
- Alderman Flapp emerged, swathed in a comforter and in a flowing self-consciousness of equity, Mr.
Synonyms of comforter
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Forms of comforter
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Origin of comforter
From Middle English comfortour et al, from Anglo-Norman confortour, from Old French conforter. See comfort.
A translation of the Ancient Greek παράκλητος (paráklētos, “comforter”), used in several verses of the New Testament.
Words formed from comforter
Questions about comforter
- What does comforter mean?
- Comforter means a person who comforts someone who is suffering.
- What is comforter in Tamil?
- Comforter in Tamil is தேற்றரவாளி, பல்வகை நார் மெத்தை விரிப்பு, வன்புறை. See Comforter meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is comforter?
- Comforter can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce comforter?
- Comforter is pronounced /ˈkʌmfətə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of comforter?
- The plural of comforter is comforters.
Words near comforter in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: comforter (page history and authors); Comforter (page history and authors); comforter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); comforter (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); comforter (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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