consort

3 definitions • 5 examples

to spend a lot of time in the company of a particular group of people, especially people whose character is not approved of:

consort with They claimed he had been consorting with drug dealers.

a wife or husband, especially of a ruler:

The Emperor Napoleon III and his consort lived sedately in an apartment in the Tuileries.

queen consort When her husband was crowned she became Queen Consort.

prince consort Philip was Elizabeth's prince consort.

to spend time in the company of particular people:

She warned him against consorting with suspicious characters.