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Meaning of "besort" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BESORT

besort  [bɪˈsɔːt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BESORT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Besort is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BESORT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of besort in the English dictionary

The definition of besort in the dictionary is befitting company.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BESORT


alphasort
ˈælfəˌsɔːt
assort
əˈsɔːt
besought
bɪˈsɔːt
consort
kənˈsɔːt
missort
ˌmɪsˈsɔːt
presort
priːˈsɔːt
re-sort
riːˈsɔːt
reassort
ˌriːəˈsɔːt
saut
sɔːt
sort
sɔːt
sought
sɔːt
unbesought
ˌʌnbɪˈsɔːt
unsought
ʌnˈsɔːt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BESORT

besmear
besmearer
besmile
besmirch
besmoke
besmudge
besmut
besnow
besognio
besom
besot
besotted
besottedly
besottedness
besought
besouled
bespangle
bespangled
bespatter
bespeak

WORDS THAT END LIKE BESORT

after a sort
broken consort
court of last resort
good sort
health resort
holiday resort
last resort
lender of last resort
prince consort
Q-sort
queen consort
resort
seaside resort
ski resort
skiing resort
special sort
summer resort

Synonyms and antonyms of besort in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «besort» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BESORT

Find out the translation of besort to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of besort from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «besort» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

besort
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

besort
570 millions of speakers

English

besort
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

besort
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

besort
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

besort
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

besort
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

besort
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

besort
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Besort
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

besort
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

besort
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

besort
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Liyane
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

besort
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

besort
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बेशर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

besort
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

besort
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

besort
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

besort
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

besort
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

besort
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

besort
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

besort
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

besort
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of besort

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BESORT»

The term «besort» is used very little and occupies the 180.113 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BESORT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «besort» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «besort» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about besort

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BESORT»

Discover the use of besort in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to besort and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Works of William Shakespeare: Preface. Addenda. Glossary ...
William Shakespeare, Alexander Dyce. BESORT—BETEEM. 37 with trained souldiers.” A brief discourse of Warre, by Sir Roger Williams, 1590, 4to, p. 11: “ Bisognio or Bisonnio, a Spanish or Italian word, and is, as we terme it, a raw souldier, ...
William Shakespeare, Alexander Dyce, 1867
2
A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and ...
To disfigure with smoke, or blackness. See SMIRCH. BESORT, v. To suit, or befit. And the remainder that shall still depend To be such men as may besort your age And know themselves and you. Lear, i. 4. BESORT, s. Attendance, or society.
Robert Nares, 1822
3
The Works of William Shakespeare
390. besort, to suit, to befit, to become : such men as may besort your age, vii. 270. best — Send us to Rome The, vi. 157 : Here the best means " the chief persons of Corioli." best men — Men of few words are the, iv. 452: " best men, that is ...
William Shakespeare, Alexander Dyce, 1867
4
The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of ...
The shame itself doth speak For instant remedy: be, then, desir'd By her, that else will take the thing she begs, A little to disquantity your train; And the remainder, that shall still depend, To be such men as may besort your age ', Which know ...
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, 1843
5
THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE: Othello: The Moor of Venice
Most humbly therefore bending to your state, I crave fit disposition for my wife, Due reference of place and exhibition, 235 With such accommodation and besort I'll not have it so. desdemona Nor would I there reside To put my father in ...
William Shakespeare, Michael Neill, 2008
6
Othello
235 besort appropriate companions or attendants. 236 levels with is suitable to. 236 breeding social position. 241 unfolding disclosure, explanation. 241 prosperous favourable. 242 charter permission (with perhaps the sense of publicly ...
William Shakespeare, Norman Sanders, 2003
7
The Tragedy of King Lear
And the remainders that shall still depend To be such men as may besort your age, Which know themselves and you. lear Darkness and devils! Saddle my horses; call my train together. - Degenerate bastard, I'll not trouble thee; Yet have I left ...
William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio, 2005
8
Shakespeare Lexicon
Besort, vb., to suit, to be in accordance with: such men as may b. your age, Lr. I, 4, 272. Besort, subst, suitableness, convenience: with such accommodation and b, as levels with her breeding, Oth. I, 3, 239 (accommodation and besort ...
Alexander Schmidt, 2007
9
A New English Dictionary of the English Language: A to K
Besort seems to be used by Shakespeare as we use consort^ or assort. Be then desir'd By her. that else will take the thing she begges, A little to disquantity your traine, And the remainders that shall still depend. To be such men as may besort  ...
Charles Richardson, 1836
10
Hearing the Measures: Shakespearean and Other Inflections
Prepared even on the night of his marriage to "undertake / These present wars against the Ottomites," he says, I crave fit disposition for my wife, Due reference of place and exhibition, With such accommodation and besort As levels with her ...
George Thaddeus Wright, 2001

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Besort [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/besort>. May 2024 ».
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