Solace: Definition and part of speech

Solace

  1. v. t. Rest; relaxation; ease.
  2. v. t. Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief.
  3. n. To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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