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consortium

noun · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /kənˈsɔː.ti.əm/
  • Received-Pronunciation, uncommon: /kənˈsɔː.ʃəm/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Canada, General-American: /kənˈsoɹ.ʃəm/
  • Canada, General-American, rare: /kənˈsoɹ.ti.əm/ [kənˈsoɹ.ɾi.əm]
  • Australian, New-Zealand: /kənˈsoː.ti.əm/
  • Australian, New-Zealand, uncommon: /kənˈsoː.ʃəm/
  • CMU ARPABET: K AH0 N S AO1 R SH IY0 AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: K AH0 N S AO1 R SH Y AH0 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

An association or combination of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: coalition, alliance, syndicate

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions or organizations.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

An association or society.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The right of a spouse to all the normal relationships with his or her mate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: law

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A group of symbiotic microbes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

an association of companies for some definite purpose

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pool, syndicate

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: association

Narrower terms: trust, corporate trust, combine, cartel

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *ser-der. Proto-Italic *sortis Latin sors Latin cōnsors Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin cōnsortiumlbor. English consortium Learned borrowing from Latin cōnsortium.

Across languages

Translations

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: konsorcium — association or combination of businesses
  • Arabic: اِتِّحَاد مَالِيّ (ittiḥād māliyy) — association or combination of businesses
  • Arabic: اِئْتِلَاف شَرِكَات (iʔtilāf šarikāt) — association or combination of businesses
  • Armenian: կոնսորցիում (konsorcʻium) — association or combination of businesses
  • Armenian: համընկերություն (hamənkerutʻyun) — association or combination of businesses
  • Azerbaijani: konsorsium — association or combination of businesses
  • Belarusian: кансо́рцыум (kansórcyum) — association or combination of businesses
  • Bulgarian: консо́рциум (konsórcium) — association or combination of businesses
  • Catalan: consorci — association or combination of businesses
  • Chinese Mandarin: 企業聯盟 /企业联盟 (qǐyè liánméng) — association or combination of businesses
  • Chinese Mandarin: 財團 /财团 (cáituán) — association or combination of businesses
  • Chinese Mandarin: 聯盟 /联盟 (liánméng) — association or combination of businesses
  • Czech: konsorcium — association or combination of businesses
  • Danish: konsortium — association or combination of businesses
  • Dutch: consortium — association or combination of businesses
  • Estonian: konsortsium — association or combination of businesses
  • Finnish: yhtymä — association or combination of businesses
  • Finnish: yhteenliittymä — association or combination of businesses
  • Finnish: konsortio — association or combination of businesses
  • French: consortium — association or combination of businesses
  • Georgian: კონსორციუმი (ḳonsorciumi) — association or combination of businesses
  • German: Konsortium — association or combination of businesses
  • German: Kooperation — association or combination of businesses
  • Greek: κονσόρτσιουμ (konsórtsioum) — association or combination of businesses
  • Hungarian: konzorcium — association or combination of businesses
  • Indonesian: konsorsium — association or combination of businesses
  • Italian: consorzio — association or combination of businesses
  • Japanese: コンソーシアム (konsōshiamu) — association or combination of businesses
  • Kazakh: консорциум (konsorsium) — association or combination of businesses
  • Korean: 연합체 (yeonhapche) — association or combination of businesses
  • Korean: 컨소시엄 (keonsosieom) — association or combination of businesses
  • Kyrgyz: консорциум (konsortsium) — association or combination of businesses
  • Latin: consortium — association or combination of businesses
  • Latvian: konsorcijs — association or combination of businesses
  • Lithuanian: konsorciumas — association or combination of businesses
  • Macedonian: конзорциум (konzorcium) — association or combination of businesses
  • Malay: konsortium — association or combination of businesses
  • Manx: co-heshaght argidagh — association or combination of businesses
  • Māori: tōpūtanga — association or combination of businesses
  • Norwegian Bokmål: konsortium — association or combination of businesses
  • Persian: کُنسُرسیوم (konsorsyum) — association or combination of businesses
  • Polish: konsorcjum — association or combination of businesses
  • Portuguese: consórcio — association or combination of businesses
  • Romanian: consorțiu — association or combination of businesses
  • Russian: консо́рциум (konsórcium) — association or combination of businesses
  • Serbo-Croatian: ко̀нзо̄рцӣј — association or combination of businesses
  • Serbo-Croatian: конзорцијум — association or combination of businesses
  • Serbo-Croatian: kònzōrcīj — association or combination of businesses
  • Serbo-Croatian: konzorcijum — association or combination of businesses
  • Slovak: konzorcium — association or combination of businesses
  • Slovene: konzorcij — association or combination of businesses
  • Spanish: consorcio — association or combination of businesses
  • Swedish: konsortium — association or combination of businesses
  • Tajik: консортсиум (konsortsium) — association or combination of businesses
  • Tajik: консорсиум (konsorsium) — association or combination of businesses
  • Turkish: birliktelik — association or combination of businesses
  • Turkish: konsorsiyum — association or combination of businesses
  • Ukrainian: консо́рціум (konsórcium) — association or combination of businesses
  • Uzbek: konsorsium — association or combination of businesses
  • Vietnamese: côngxoocxiom — association or combination of businesses
  • Vietnamese: công-xoóc-xi-om — association or combination of businesses
  • Chinese Mandarin: 聯盟 /联盟 (liánméng) — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • Finnish: yhdistys — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • Finnish: liitto — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • Finnish: yhteenliittymä — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • Finnish: yhtymä — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • Finnish: konsortio — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • French: consortium — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • German: Interessenverband — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • German: Interessengemeinschaft — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • German: Arbeitsgemeinschaft — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • Indonesian: konsorsium — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • Latin: consortium — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • Portuguese: consórcio — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • Portuguese: associação — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • Spanish: consorcio — similar arrangement among non-commercial institutions
  • Finnish: yhdistys — association or society
  • Finnish: seura — association or society
  • French: consortium — association or society
  • German: Bund — association or society
  • German: Verband — association or society
  • German: Gesellschaft — association or society
  • Portuguese: associação — association or society
  • Spanish: consorcio — association or society
  • Spanish: asociación — association or society
  • Finnish: puolison oikeus toisen kumppanuuteen — legal right
  • German: eheliches Recht — legal right
Real reading context

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