COMFORTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comforts mean? 

• COMFORTS (noun)
  The noun COMFORTS has 1 sense:

1. things that make you comfortable and at ease

  Familiarity information: COMFORTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMFORTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Things that make you comfortable and at ease

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

amenities; comforts; conveniences; creature comforts

Context example:

all the comforts of home

Hypernyms ("comforts" is a kind of...):

bread and butter; keep; livelihood; living; support; sustenance (the financial means whereby one lives)

 Context examples 

So, stifling a natural regret at the thought of the home comforts he would leave behind him, he said stoutly, Bless your soul, I'm not superannuated yet.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Jane Fairfax had already quitted Highbury, and was restored to the comforts of her beloved home with the Campbells.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It had increased her comforts by making her feel herself to be in good hands.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I know the danger of your being so far forgotten, as to have your comforts give way to the imaginary convenience of any single being in the family.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She wrote cheerfully, seemed surrounded with comforts, and mentioned nothing which she could not praise.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Have you no comforts? no friends?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A white mule with red trappings, led by a varlet, carried Sir Nigel's own napery and table comforts.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A religious group that follows the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, who taught that the end of suffering can be achieved by eliminating the desire for material comforts.

(Buddhist, NCI Thesaurus)

My aunt and Agnes were there, busily making some little extra comforts, in the way of dress, for the children.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had gone camping but once in my life, and then I left the party almost at its start and returned to the comforts and conveniences of a roof.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)