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From Old French solas, from Latin sōlācium (“consolation”), root from Proto-Indo-European *selh₂- (“mercy, comfort”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɒl.ɪs/
• (General American) enPR: sŏlʹĭs, IPA(key): /ˈsɑ.lɪs/
• (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈsɔl.ɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɒlɪs

solace (countable and uncountable, plural solaces)

1. Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress.
   Synonyms: comfort, consolation, relief; see also Thesaurus:consolation
   You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace.
2. A source of comfort or consolation.
   • September 25, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
     The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion.

• solaceful

• solacement

• Azerbaijani: təsəlli, təskin, təskinlik

• Bashkir: йыуаныс (yıwanıs)

• Bulgarian: утешение (bg) n (utešenie)

• Catalan: consol (ca) m

• Czech: útěcha (cs) f

• Danish: trøst (da) c

• Dutch: troost (nl) m, soelaas (nl) n

• Esperanto: konsolo

• Faroese: troyst f

• Finnish: lohtu (fi), lohdutus (fi)

• French: consolation (fr) f, réconfort (fr) m

• Galician: solaz m

• Georgian: ნუგეში (nugeši)

• German: Trost (de) m

• Greek: παρηγοριά (el) f (parigoriá)

• Hebrew: נחמה (he) f (nekhamá)

• Hindi: सांत्वना (hi) f (sāntvanā)

• Hungarian: vigasz (hu), vigasztalás (hu), megnyugtatás (hu), megnyugvás (hu)

• Ido: konsolaco (io)

• Italian: consolazione (it) f, conforto (it) m

• Korean: 위안 (ko) (wian)

• Latin: solacium n

• Māori: oranga ngākau

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: trøst m or f
  Nynorsk: trøyst f

• Persian: تسلی (fa) (tasalli)

• Plautdietsch: Troost m

• Polish: pociecha (pl) f

• Portuguese: consolo (pt) m

• Romanian: consolare (ro) f, reconfortare (ro) f

• Russian: утеше́ние (ru) n (utešénije), смягче́ние (ru) n (smjaxčénije)

• Scottish Gaelic: sòlas m

• Slovak: útecha f

• Spanish: solaz (es) m

• Swedish: tröst (sv) c

• Turkish: teselli (tr)

• Bulgarian: утеха (bg) f (uteha)

• Catalan: consol (ca) m

• Czech: útěcha (cs) f

• Danish: trøst (da) c

• Dutch: troost (nl) m, soelaas (nl) n

• Finnish: lohtu (fi), lohdutus (fi)

• French: consolation (fr) f, réconfort (fr)

• Galician: solaz m

• German: Trost (de) m

• Hindi: सांत्वना (hi) f (sāntvanā)

• Hungarian: vigasz (hu), támasz (hu)

• Italian: consolazione (it) f, conforto (it) m

• Latin: solacium n

• Māori: oranga ngākau

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: trøst m or f
  Nynorsk: trøyst f

• Persian: دلخوشی (fa) (del-xoši)

• Plautdietsch: Troost m

• Polish: pociecha (pl) f

• Portuguese: consolo (pt) m

• Slovak: útecha f

• Swedish: tröst (sv) c

Translations to be checked

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.
   Synonyms: besoothe, soothe; see also Thesaurus:comfort
2. (transitive) To allay or assuage.
3. (intransitive) To take comfort; to be cheered.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
     But one thing to reioyce and ſolace in,
     And cruell death hath catcht it from my ſight.

• solacer
• unsolaced
• unsolacing

to allay, assuage

• Bulgarian: успокоявам (bg) (uspokojavam)
• Czech: utišit (cs), ztišit
• Finnish: lievittää (fi)
• Greek: ανακουφίζω (el) (anakoufízo)
• Hungarian: enyhít (hu), csillapít (hu)

Translations to be checked

• console

• Coales, acoels, coales

• IPA(key): /soˈlaθe/ [soˈla.θe] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)

• IPA(key): /soˈlase/ [soˈla.se] (Latin America, Philippines)

• Rhymes: -aθe (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)

• Rhymes: -ase (Latin America, Philippines)

• Syllabification: so‧la‧ce

solace

1. inflection of solazar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative