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UK
/fˈeɪvɐ/
]
[ US /ˈfeɪvɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈfeɪvɝ/ ]
VERB
-
promote over another
he favors his second daughter - bestow a privilege upon
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consider as the favorite
The local team was favored - treat gently or carefully
NOUN
- souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party
- a feeling of favorable regard
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an advantage to the benefit of someone or something
the outcome was in his favor - an act of gracious kindness
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an inclination to approve
that style is in favor this season
How To Use favor In A Sentence
- Wine lovers in the U.S. are increasingly describing their favorite vintage as molto buono, instead of très bon.
- The bolide probably prolonged and intensified the change, and may have weighed heavily in favor of mammals or birds and against non - avian dinosaurs.
- I didn't move until I heard slow footsteps and peaked over the top of the gold to see Garren warily approaching the dragon, favoring his left leg.
- Could you do me a big favor?
- Therefore, if the vaccine afforded protection for life, there would be a very strong argument in favor of universal vaccination - no chicken pox and no shingles.
- A favorite uncle provided pointers on pugilistic defenses against bullies - namely her father, who was the first regular bully in her life.
- Hand, Schryhart, Arneel, and Merrill, weighted with this inpouring flood of stock, which they had to take at two-twenty, hurried to their favorite banks, hypothecating vast quantities at one-fifty and over, and using the money so obtained to take care of the additional shares which they were compelled to buy. The Titan
- The transitional zones between low backgrounds of W Mo group elements and iron group and chalcophile elements are the favorable enriched zones of uranium deposits.
- At the least, that first conclusion seems to me unproven by his own arguments in favor of mortality.
- The Israelis already possess them, operating disingenuously and outside international norms again, an exceptionalism granted by the United States’ favor andmight. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”