favour

1. 1.

   treat gently or carefully

   Synonymsfavor

   Broaderspare
2. 2.

   bestow a privilege upon

   Synonymsprivilegefavor

   Broaderpermit
3. 3.

   promote over another

   “he favors his second daughter”

   Synonymspreferfavor

   Broaderpromote

   Narroweradvantage
4. 4.

   consider as the favorite

   “The local team was favored”

   Synonymsfavor

   Broadersee

Other forms of favour

plural

favours·

past tense

favoured·

present participle

favouring·

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 favour

What does favour mean?

favour means "a feeling of favorable regard". That is the primary sense; the word has 9 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in favour?

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

What is another word for favour?

Close synonyms include favor, favor, favor, party favor, party favour. 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 favour a common word?

favour is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 favour?

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