solace
IPA: sˈɑɫʌs
noun
- Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress.
- A source of comfort or consolation.
verb
- (transitive) To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.
- (transitive) To allay or assuage.
- (intransitive) To take comfort; to be cheered.
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Examples of "solace" in Sentences
- As his eyes welled with tears, he added, "I found a certain solace and soothing in the telling."
- I take some solace from the fact that this morning's snowfall will eventually become part of next summer's trout stream.
- If so, perhaps ITV can take solace from the fact that breakfast television has never taken off over here as it did in the US.
- That's pretty gross, I know, but at least here in the Rocky Mountain State we can take solace from the fact that we're not Mississippi, the nation's fattest state, where better than one out of every three people is considered obese.
- Much like President Bill Clinton took solace from the Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms, so does Obama embark this week on a lengthy trip to Asia, where he will be able to put aside temporarily the political setback at home for a turn on the global stage, where he remains widely admired.
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