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UK
/fˈeɪvɐ/
]
[ US /ˈfeɪvɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈfeɪvɝ/ ]
VERB
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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.
- My favorite load for turkeys is Beman ICS Hunter arrows fletched with Bonning Blazer vanes and tipped with Vortex Pro-Series 100 grain 2.25 broadheads. Which load do you use for turkey
- The bolide probably prolonged and intensified the change, and may have weighed heavily in favor of mammals or birds and against non - avian dinosaurs.
- 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.
- 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”
- Brown bags of pasta stand ready to be combined with cans of Italian tuna, homemade pickled vegetables, home-canned tomato sauce, and jars of his favorite imported red peppers.
- No longer will I worry about favorites wrecking their seasons with three bad games.
- Eager to attack Troy, Agamemnon kills her, and the Greeks are given favorable winds for their ships.
- I thought his favor was excessive; certainly I never thought their powers were any more real than those cheapjack toadstone-peddlers or the granny-wives who claim they can put a bad word on someone's cow. The Silent Tower
- The electroplate manufacturers in North America in the late nineteenth century favored various plain square, oblong, and low round baskets and taller ones on a foot, resembling a compote.