Definition of Console

1. Noun. A small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall.

Exact synonyms: Console Table
Generic synonyms: Table

2. Verb. Give moral or emotional strength to. "The performance is likely to console Sue"

3. Noun. A scientific instrument consisting of displays and an input device that an operator can use to monitor and control a system (especially a computer system).

4. Noun. An ornamental scroll-shaped bracket (especially one used to support a wall fixture). ; "The bust of Napoleon stood on a console"
Generic synonyms: Bracket, Wall Bracket

5. Noun. Housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television.
Exact synonyms: Cabinet
Generic synonyms: Housing

Definition of Console

1. v. t. To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.

2. n. A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.

Definition of Console

1. Noun. A cabinet designed to stand on the floor, especially one that houses home entertainment equipment, such as a TV or stereo system. ¹

2. Noun. A cabinet that controls, instruments, and displays are mounted upon. ¹

3. Noun. The keyboard and screen of a computer. ¹

4. Noun. A storage tray or container mounted between the seats of an automobile. ¹

5. Noun. (video games) A device dedicated to playing video games, set apart from [ arcade cabinets] by its ability to change games. ¹

6. Noun. (architecture) An ornamental member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight. ¹

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Console

1. to comfort [v -SOLED, -SOLING, -SOLES] - See also: comfort

Lexicographical Neighbors of Console

consociates
consociating
consociation
consociational
consociationalism
consociations
consol
consolable
consolation
consolation goal
consolation prize
consolation prizes
consolations
consolatoriness
consolatory
console (current term)
console converter
console converters
console table
consoled
consoler
consolers
consoles
consolidant
consolidate
consolidated
consolidates
consolidating
consolidation
consolidation chemotherapy

Literary usage of Console

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Shirley: A Tale by Charlotte Brontë (1850)
"To what will she come ? Why are not the laws more stringent, that I might compel her to hear reason ?" " console yourself, uncle ..."

2. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1907)
"For instance, Sir Richard •BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY PANEL AND CARVED AND GILT console TABLE Thomas Grosvenor, of Holme—or Hume—to Joan, heiress of John Eton de ..."

3. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1897)
"His comrade, to astonish and console him, telegraphed from one of the post-houses where they had stopped for dimmer, to the American consul at Christiania. ..."

4. The Letters of the British Spy by William Wirt (1841)
"... to a better understanding of the subject, the light, that is thus elicited, will console me for the collision which produced it October 12, 1803. ..."

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