favour (countable anduncountable,pluralfavours)
- British standard spelling offavor.
I need afavour. Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?
Can you do me afavour and drop these letters in the post box?
2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8842, page29:Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale infavour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.
favour (third-person singular simple presentfavours,present participlefavouring,simple past and past participlefavoured)
- British standard spelling offavor.
1921,Ben Travers, chapter 5, inA Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Page & Company, published1925,→OCLC:The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driverfavoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”
1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, inTrains Illustrated, page191:Clacton and Walton are resorts mostlyfavoured by Londoners and only three trains run through to the Midlands and North.
- Favour is the standard British and Commonwealth spelling.Favor is the standard American spelling.
Borrowed fromAnglo-Normanfavour,favur, fromLatinfavor.
- IPA(key): /faːˈvuːr/,/ˈfaːvur/
favour (uncountable)
- goodwill,benevolentregard
- assistance,support,aid
- attractiveness,beauty
- partiality,prejudice
- (rare)forgiveness,lenience
favouroblique singular, f (oblique pluralfavours,nominative singularfavour,nominative pluralfavours)
- Late Anglo-Norman spelling offavor
[V]ous leur veulliez fairefavour[,] ease et desport sanz faire a eux ou soeffrer estre fait de nully male, moleste, injurie, damage indehucee, destourbance ne empeschement en aucune manere.- You want to show them favour, ease and enjoyment without making them suffer or subjecting them to any evil, harm, injury, damage, disruption or obstacle of any kind.
