solace

From Old French solas, from Latin sōlācium (“consolation”), root from Proto-Indo-European *sōlh₂- (“mercy, comfort”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒ.lɪs/
• (US) enPR: sŏʹlace, IPA^(key): /ˈsɑː.lɪs/

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• Rhymes: -ɒlɪs

solace (countable and uncountable, plural solaces)

1. Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress.

   You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace.

2. A source of comfort or consolation.
   • Rambler

     The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion.

• comfort
• consolation
• relief
• support
• compassion

• solaceful
• solacement

solace (third-person singular simple present solaces, present participle solacing, simple past and past participle solaced)

1. (transitive) To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.
2. (transitive) To allay or assuage.
3. (intransitive) To take comfort; to be cheered.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, IV. v. 48:

     But one thing to rejoice and solace in, / And cruel death hath catched it from my sight.

• console

• Coales, acoels, coales

solace

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of solazarse.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of solazarse.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of solazarse.