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Definition: Comforts |
ComfortsNoun1. Things that make you comfortable and at ease; "all the comforts of home". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "comforts" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: ComfortsSynonyms: amenities (n), conveniences (n), creature comforts (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta; grub, grubstake, prog, meat; bread, bread stuffs; cerealia; cereals; viands, cates, delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder, fleshpots; festal board; ambrosia; good cheer, good living. |
Physical Pleasure | Noun: pleasure; physical pleasure, sensual pleasure, sensuous pleasure; bodily enjoyment, animal gratification, hedonism, sensuality; luxuriousness. Adjective: dissipation, round of pleasure, titillation, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease; pillow. (support); luxury, lap of luxury; purple and fine linen; bed of downs, bed of roses; velvet, clover; cup of Circe. (intemperance). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Comforts |
| English words defined with "comforts": amenities ♦ comfort, Comfortress, Consolator, conveniences, creature comforts ♦ ease ♦ Lip comforter ♦ The United States Christian Commission, To rough it. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "comforts": Actor and Actress ♦ carder, blankets, CLERGY MEMBER, CONTESTANT COORDINATOR, Creature-comforts, curtain drier, curtain framer, curtain stretcher ♦ Ironing ♦ Load ♦ stretcher operator, STRETCHER-DRIER OPERATOR. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | We all travel thousands of miles just to check in to some place with all the comforts of home, and you gotta ask yourself, what is the point of that? (The Beach; writing credit: John Hodge) All the comforts of home! (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner) | |
Movie/TV Titles | All the Comforts of Home (1912) Creature Comforts (2003) | |
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 | A soldier comforts a grief-stricken American infantryman whose buddy had been killed in action. In the background, a corpsman methodically fills out casualty forms in the Haktong-ni area, Korea, Aug. 28, 1950. (P.; photo by Army Sgt. 1st Class Al Chang).. |  | [Public Health: Visiting nurse comforts mother as policeman takes baby to the hospital]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Comforts of Bath. / Rowlandson fecit. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The Comforts of High Living. / Rowlandson. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Mrs. Wiggs rents a cottage for the summer : all the comforts of home. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The comforts of a Rumford stove Vide Dr. G-rn-ts lectures / / Js Gillray des. & fect. ad vivum. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | "The comforts of home" lure tourists into private family tourist rests. Near Cortland, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. |
Flavel | God kills thy comforts to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness; poverty to kill pride; reproaches to destroy ambition. |
Francis Bacon | Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. |
Oliver Goldsmith | Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes. |
Robert Browning | What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. |
Rutherford | Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Jane Fairfax had already quitted Highbury, and was restored to the comforts of her beloved home with the Campbells. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | We at least are warmed and lighted, and you know those are great comforts. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Blankets and comforts were thrown back and sleepy eyes squinted blindly at the light. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Human Rights | Colombia | Key narcotics traffickers and some guerrilla leaders obtain cells with many comforts, some of which--such as access to two-way radios, cellular telephones, and computers--allowed them to continue their illegal activities from inside jail. (references) |
Travel | Chad | The N'Djamena Airport is modern but lacks standard travel comforts and facilities. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Our country abounds in the necessaries, the arts, and the comforts of life. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | By a judicious regulation of our trade with them we supply their wants, administer to their comforts, and gradually, as the game retires, draw them to us. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | But on the whole the opportunities offered to the individual to secure the comforts of life are better than are found elsewhere and largely better than they were here one hundred years ago. |
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| "Comforts" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 80.79% of the time. "Comforts" is used about 229 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 80.79% | 185 | 22,646 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 17.47% | 40 | 54,274 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.75% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 229 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "comforts": creature comforts ♦ home comforts ♦ material comforts. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
creature comforts | 60 |
home comforts | 25 |
quilt and other comforts | 22 |
southern comforts | 9 |
comforts | 7 |
comforts marie | 6 |
comforts giveaway home | 3 |
colorado comforts | 3 |
nick park creature comforts | 2 |
comforts fireside | 2 |
comforts creature pet resort | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "comforts"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | èˆ'适 (Comfort, Comfortable, Cosy, Coziness, Cozy, Ease, Easeful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pohodlà domova (home comforts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Ã la pistole zitten (to be in prison with permission to pay for one's own comforts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | olla vankilassa maksullisin mukavuuksin varustetussa huoneessa (to be in prison with permission to pay for one's own comforts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | être à la pistole (to be in prison with permission to pay for one's own comforts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Behaglichkeiten. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | anyagi jólét (creature comforts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | essere carcerato in una cella a pagamento (to be in prison with permission to pay for one's own comforts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | ì•ˆë½ (Comfort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omfortscay gozar de um regime de favor na prisão (to be in prison with permission to pay for one's own comforts). (various references) haine (accoutrement, apparel, clothes, clothing, creature comforts, dress, fig, habiliment, raiment, rigging, suit, wear). (various references) земное благо (creature comforts). (various references) tröstar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Timothy Chapter 2, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Su oun kakopaqhson wV kaloV stratiwthV ihsou cristou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Labora sicut bonus miles Christi Iesu |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Trauele thou as a good knyyt of Crist Jhesu. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Thou therfore suffre affliccion as a good soudier of Iesu Christ. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Be ready to do without the comforts of life, as one of the army of Christ Jesus. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 2 Timothy Chapter 2, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | Pakig-ambit sa mga pag-antus ingon nga maayong sundalo ni Cristo Jesus. |
| Croatian | S njima se zlopati kao dobar vojnik Krista Isusa. |
| Danish | Vær med til at lide ondt som en god Kristi Jesu Stridsmand. |
| Dutch | Gij dan, lijd verdrukkingen, als een goed krijgsknecht van Jezus Christus. |
| Finnish | Kärsi vaivaa niinkuin ainakin jalo Kristuksen Jeesuksen sotamies. |
| French | Souffre avec moi, comme un bon soldat de Jésus Christ. |
| German | Leide mit als ein guter Streiter Jesu Christi. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Engkau harus turut menderita sebagai prajurit Kristus Yesus yang setia. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Hendaklah engkau sama-sama menderita sengsara dengan aku seperti seorang laskar Kristus Yesus yang baik. |
| Latvian | Strâdâ kâ labs Jçzus Kristus kareivis! |
| Maori | Tukua atu nga mamae ki a koe, kia rite ki te hoia pai a Ihu Karaiti. |
| Norwegian | Lid ondt med mig som en god Kristi Jesu stridsmann! |
| Portuguese | Sofre comigo como bom soldado de Cristo Jesus. |
| Rumanian | Sufere kmpreunq cu mine, ca un bun ostaw al lui Hristos. |
| Shuar | Ame ti penker JesukrÃstu suntari asam Wáitsatin katsuntrata. |
| Spanish | Tú, pues, sé partÃcipe de los sufrimientos como buen soldado de Cristo Jesús. |
| Swahili | Shiriki katika mateso kama askari mwaminifu wa Kristo yesu. |
| Uma | Jadi', Timotius, kana sadia wo'o-ko-kowo mpokolo kaparia hangkaa-ngkania hante aku', hewa tantara Kristus Yesus to lompe'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "comforts": discomforts. (additional references) | |
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"Comforts" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bomfords, Combort, comfirt, Comford, Comforseg, comforth, commorits, conforrt, Confort, confortis, coumforte, Cusforth, Homfirth. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "comforts" (pronounced ku"mferts) |
| 4 | -f er t s | efforts. |
| 3 | -er t s | concerts, converts, deserts, everts, experts, filberts, liverworts, megahertz, perverts, stalwarts. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-f-m-o-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: comfort. | |
-2 letters: crofts, motors. | |
-3 letters: coofs, coots, corms, croft, foots, forms, forts, frost, moors, moots, morts, motor, roofs, rooms, roost, roots, rotos, scoot, storm, torcs, toros, torso. | |
-4 letters: coft, coof, coos, coot, corf, corm, cors, cost, cots, foot, form, fort, from, mocs, moor, moos, moot, mors, mort, most, mots, oots, orcs, orts, rocs, roms. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-f-m-o-o-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: comforters, conformist, discomfort. | |
+3 letters: comfortless, conformists, discomforts. | |
+4 letters: conformities, discomforted, electroforms. | |
+5 letters: confirmations, conformations, discomforting, disconformity, nonconformist, olfactometers. | |
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