comfort
/ˈkʌm.fɚt/ noun B1- Contentment, ease. · Sleep in comfort with our new mattress.
- Something that offers comfort. · Coordinate term: glimmer (2020s, neologism; a happy moment)· the comforts of home
- A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry. · We still have the spare tire? That's a comfort at least.
- A cause of relief or satisfaction.
Plural comforts
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It was a great comfort while it lasted.
‘My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.’ That’s a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I’m disappointed in anything.”
And then, her temper’s pretty quick, I guess; but there’s one comfort, a child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain’t never likely to be sly or deceitful.
It’s a great comfort.
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