favor

1. 1.

   promote over another

   “he favors his second daughter”

   Synonymspreferfavour

   Broaderpromote

   Narroweradvantage
2. 2.

   consider as the favorite

   “The local team was favored”

   Synonymsfavour

   Broadersee
3. 3.

   treat gently or carefully

   Synonymsfavour

   Broaderspare
4. 4.

   bestow a privilege upon

   Synonymsprivilegefavour

   Broaderpermit

Other forms of favor

plural

favors·

past tense

favorred·

present participle

favorring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about favor

What does favor mean?

favor means "an act of gracious kindness". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in favor?

favor has 2 syllables: fa-vor. The stress falls on "fa". In IPA it is /ˈfeɪvɚ/.

What is another word for favor?

Close synonyms include favour, favour, favour, favour, party favor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is favor a common word?

favor is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with favor?

1 word rhymes with favor. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.