Usually means: Comfort or consolation in sorrow.
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  1. solace: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. solace: Merriam-Webster
  3. solace: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. solace: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. solace: Collins English Dictionary
  6. solace: Vocabulary.com
  7. Solace, solace: Wordnik
  8. solace: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. solace: Wiktionary
  10. solace: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. solace: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. solace: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. SOLACE(R), solace: Dictionary.com
  14. solace (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. solace: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Solace: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. solace: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. solace: Rhymezone
  20. Solace: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. solace: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. solace: FreeDictionary.org
  23. solace: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. solace: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. solace: Legal dictionary

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  1. solace: Encyclopedia

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  1. SOLACE(R), SOLACE: Acronym Finder
  2. solace: Idioms

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  1. Solace: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress.
▸ noun:  A source of comfort or consolation.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To allay or assuage.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To take comfort; to be cheered.

Similar:
consolation, comfort, soothe, console, Dutch consolation, comfortative, comfortability, anodyne, unction, comfort tone, more...

Opposite:
anguish, distress, discomfort, unrest, turmoil

Types:
relief, comfort, consolation, succor, more...

Phrases:
Quantum of Solace, Solace Corporation, find solace, opposite of solace, quantum solace, more...

Adjectives:
only, little, great, spiritual, such, much, chief, sweet, small, real, temporary

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↻From "Parliament Of Fowles, The" by Geoffrey Chaucer:

And al hir love, and in what plyte they dyde.
Whan I was come ayen unto the place
That I of spak, that was so swote and grene,
Forth welk I tho, my-selven to solace.
1 of 15 verses

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Similar:
consolation, comfort, soothe, console, Dutch consolation, comfortative, comfortability, anodyne, unction, comfort tone, more...

Opposite:
anguish, distress, discomfort, unrest, turmoil

Types:
relief, comfort, consolation, succor, more...

Phrases:
Quantum of Solace, Solace Corporation, find solace, opposite of solace, quantum solace, take solace, bring solace, place of solace, solace in, take solace in, more...

Adjectives:
only, little, great, spiritual, such, much, chief, sweet, small, real, temporary

Colors:
    soft blue,     lavender,     sage green,     pale pink,     light gray, more...



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