Console

English

Noun

Console (plural Consoles)

1. A cabinet designed to stand on the floor.
2. A cabinet that controls, instruments, and displays are mounted upon.
3. The keyboard and screen of a computer.
4. A storage tray or container mounted between the seats of an automobile.
5. (video games) A device dedicated to playing video games, set apart from by its ability to change games.
6. (architecture) An ornamental member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.

Verb

Console (third-person singular simple present Consoles, present participle consoling, simple past and past participle consoled)

1. (transitive) To comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment, etc.

Adverbs for Console

profoundly; hollowly; infallibly; perfunctorily; divinely; substantially; ironically; religiously; clumsily; feebly; inwardly; infinitesimally; precipitately.

Synonyms for Console

comfort, solace

Derived terms

consolable; consolation; consolatory; consoler; consoling; consolingly

Thesaurus

assuage, assure, bear up, buck up, cabinet, calm, chassis, cheer, cheer up, choir, claviature, comfort, commiserate, condole with, control desk, control panel, ease, echo, eighty-eight, encourage, express sympathy for, feel with, fingerboard, give comfort, graphic panel, great, grieve for, grieve with, hearten, housing, inspirit, ivories, jack field, keyboard, keys, manual, master control desk, mixer, organ manual, panelboard, pedals, piano keys, put at ease, radio, radio receiver, radio set, radio telescope, reassure, receiver, receiving set, relieve, set, set at ease, solace, solo, soothe, sorrow with, speak soothing words, swell, sympathize with, tranquilize, upraise, weep for, weep with, wireless, wireless set

Etymology

1. From French console (“a bracket”)
2. From French consoler, from Latin consolari (“offer solace”)

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: kənsōlʹ, IPA: /kənˈsəʊl/, SAMPA: /k@n"s@Ul/
• (US) enPR: kənsōlʹ, IPA: /kənˈsoʊl/, SAMPA: /k@n"soUl/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈkɒn.səʊl/, SAMPA: /"kQn.s@Ul/
• (US) IPA: /ˈkɑːn.soʊl/, SAMPA: /"kAn.soUl/

  • Audio (US)

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    (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊl

Translations

Noun

Translations

Bulgarian: конзола (bg) French: console (fr) f.

German: Konsole (de) f. Hebrew: קונסולה (he) (consola) Romanian: consolă (ro) f.

Verb

to comfort

Arabic: واسى (ar) (waasaa), عزى (ar) (ghazzaa), سلى (ar) (sallaa) Bulgarian: утешавам (bg) (utešavam) Chinese: Mandarin: 安慰 (cmn) (ānwèi), 寬慰 (cmn), 宽慰 (cmn) (kuānwèi) Czech: utěšit (cs) French: consoler (fr) German: trösten (de)

Japanese: 慰める (ja) (なぐめる, nagumeru), 労る (ja) (いたわる, itawaru) Luxembourgish: tréischten (lb) Portuguese: consolar (pt) Russian: утешать (ru) (utešát') impf., утешить (ru) (utéšit') pf., успокаивать (ru) (uspokáivat') impf., успокоить (ru) (uspokóit') pf. Spanish: consolar (es) Swedish: trösta (sv)

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French

Verb

Console

1. first-person singular present indicative of consoler
2. third-person singular present indicative of consoler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of consoler
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of consoler
5. second-person singular imperative of consoler

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin cōnsul.

Noun

console m. (plural consoli)

1. consul

Related terms

• consolare
• consolato