comforter
/ˈkʌmfɚtɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.81 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost.
Example Sentences
- "Let no comforter delight mine ear / But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine."
- "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."
- "There are 157 men with AIDS/ARC in the small unit where I am housed. Many of us are abandoned by friends, family, lovers and spiritual comforters. And this is why I am reaching out to you."
- "A vast quilt or comforter was heaped beside the bed, in a broad puddle of congealed blood, thick and shiny on the patterned rugs."
- "[…] 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."
- "The American schoolboy takes off his comforter and unbuttons his jacket before going in for a snowball fight."
Etymology
From Middle English comfortour et al, from Anglo-Norman confortour, from Old French conforter. See comfort.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *bʰerǵʰ-, comfortour, confortour, conforter
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkʌmfɚtɚ/
- British English: /ˈkʌmfətə/
Usage
- American usage
- British usage
- Dated
- Australian usage
- New Zealand usage
Inflected Forms
comforters (plural)
the Comforter (canonical)