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Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?", "type": "example" }, { "text": "Can you do me a favour and drop these letters in the post box?", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29", "text": "Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "British standard spelling of favor." ], "id": "en-favour-en-noun-AS8-UWwy", "links": [ [ "favor", "favor#English" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] } ], "word": "favour" } { "forms": [ { "form": "favours", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "favouring", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "favoured", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "favoured", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "favour (third-person singular simple present favours, present participle favouring, simple past and past participle favoured)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "hyphenation": [ "fa‧vour" ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "_dis": "49 51", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest", "text": "The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191", "text": "Clacton and Walton are resorts mostly favoured by Londoners and only three trains run through to the Midlands and North.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "British standard spelling of favor." ], "id": "en-favour-en-verb-AS8-UWwy", "links": [ [ "favor", "favor#English" ] ] } ], "word": "favour" } { "descendants": [ { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "favor", "alts": "1" }, "expansion": "English: favor, favour", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "English: favor, favour" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "cy", "2": "ffafr", "bor": "1" }, "expansion": "→ Welsh: ffafr", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "→ Welsh: ffafr" } ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "loanword", "2": "Borrowed" }, "expansion": "Borrowed", "name": "glossary" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "xno", "3": "favour", "4": "", "5": "", "g": "", "g2": "", "g3": "", "id": "", "lit": "", "nocat": "", "pos": "", "sc": "", "sort": "", "tr": "", "ts": "" }, "expansion": "Anglo-Norman favour", "name": "bor" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "xno", "3": "favour" }, "expansion": "Borrowed from Anglo-Norman favour", "name": "bor+" }, { "args": { "1": "fro", "2": "favur" }, "expansion": "favur", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "la", "3": "favor" }, "expansion": "Latin favor", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Anglo-Norman favour, favur, from Latin favor.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "nouns", "g": "", "g2": "", "g3": "", "head": "", "sort": "" }, "expansion": "favour", "name": "head" }, { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "favour (uncountable)", "name": "enm-noun" } ], "lang": "Middle English", "lang_code": "enm", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "word": "favourable" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "word": "favourere" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "word": "favouren" } ], "senses": [ { "glosses": [ "goodwill, benevolent regard" ], "id": "en-favour-enm-noun-M0T7pvkI", "links": [ [ "goodwill", "goodwill" ], [ "benevolent", "benevolent" ], [ "regard", "regard" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "5 54 1 1 39", "kind": "other", "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "5 58 1 1 35", "kind": "other", "name": "Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup", "parents": [ "Entries with topic categories using raw markup", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "assistance, support, aid" ], "id": "en-favour-enm-noun-TO6Ki4AS", "links": [ [ "assistance", "assistance" ], [ "support", "support" ], [ "aid", "aid" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "18 3 75 2 3", "kind": "topical", "langcode": "enm", "name": "Appearance", "orig": "enm:Appearance", "parents": [ "Perception", "Body", "Human", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "glosses": [ "attractiveness, beauty" ], "id": "en-favour-enm-noun-feDIWGXg", "links": [ [ "attractiveness", "attractiveness" ], [ "beauty", "beauty" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "glosses": [ "partiality, prejudice" ], "id": "en-favour-enm-noun-av3gKRDh", "links": [ [ "partiality", "partiality" ], [ "prejudice", "prejudice" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [], "glosses": [ "forgiveness, lenience" ], "id": "en-favour-enm-noun-TtT4IzZb", "links": [ [ "forgiveness", "forgiveness" ], [ "lenience", "lenience" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(rare) forgiveness, lenience" ], "tags": [ "rare", "uncountable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/faːˈvuːr/" }, { "ipa": "/ˈfaːvur/" } ], "synonyms": [ { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "word": "faver" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "word": "favor" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "word": "favoure" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "word": "ffavour" }, { "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0", "word": "fovour" } ], "word": "favour" } { "forms": [ { "form": "favour oblique singular or", "tags": [ "canonical", "feminine" ] }, { "form": "favours", "tags": [ "oblique", "plural" ] }, { "form": "favour", "tags": [ "nominative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "favours", "tags": [ "nominative", "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "f" }, "expansion": "favour oblique singular, f (oblique plural favours, nominative singular favour, nominative plural favours)", "name": "fro-noun" } ], "lang": "Old French", "lang_code": "fro", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "favor" } ], "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Old French entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "english": "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.", "text": "[V]ous leur veulliez faire favour[,] ease et desport sanz faire a eux ou soeffrer estre fait de nully male, moleste, injurie, damage indehucee, destourbance ne empeschement en aucune manere.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "Late Anglo-Norman spelling of favor" ], "id": "en-favour-fro-noun-oXmHjoLs", "links": [ [ "favor", "favor#Old French" ] ], "tags": [ "Anglo-Norman", "alt-of" ] } ], "word": "favour" }
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Could you lend me £5 until tomorrow, please?", "type": "example" }, { "text": "Can you do me a favour and drop these letters in the post box?", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29", "text": "Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "British standard spelling of favor." ], "links": [ [ "favor", "favor#English" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] } ], "word": "favour" } { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English uncountable nouns", "English verbs" ], "forms": [ { "form": "favours", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "favouring", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "favoured", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] }, { "form": "favoured", "tags": [ "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "favour (third-person singular simple present favours, present participle favouring, simple past and past participle favoured)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "hyphenation": [ "fa‧vour" ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "British English forms", "English terms with quotations" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest", "text": "The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”", "type": "quotation" }, { "ref": "1959 April, B. Perren, “The Essex Coast Branches of the Great Eastern Line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 191", "text": "Clacton and Walton are resorts mostly favoured by Londoners and only three trains run through to the Midlands and North.", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "British standard spelling of favor." ], "links": [ [ "favor", "favor#English" ] ] } ], "word": "favour" } { "categories": [ "Middle English entries with incorrect language header", "Middle English entries with topic categories using raw markup", "Middle English lemmas", "Middle English nouns", "Middle English terms borrowed from Anglo-Norman", "Middle English terms derived from Anglo-Norman", "Middle English terms derived from Latin", "Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation", "Middle English uncountable nouns", "enm:Appearance" ], "descendants": [ { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "favor", "alts": "1" }, "expansion": "English: favor, favour", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "English: favor, favour" }, { "depth": 1, "templates": [ { "args": { "1": "cy", "2": "ffafr", "bor": "1" }, "expansion": "→ Welsh: ffafr", "name": "desc" } ], "text": "→ Welsh: ffafr" } ], "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "loanword", "2": "Borrowed" }, "expansion": "Borrowed", "name": "glossary" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "xno", "3": "favour", "4": "", "5": "", "g": "", "g2": "", "g3": "", "id": "", "lit": "", "nocat": "", "pos": "", "sc": "", "sort": "", "tr": "", "ts": "" }, "expansion": "Anglo-Norman favour", "name": "bor" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "xno", "3": "favour" }, "expansion": "Borrowed from Anglo-Norman favour", "name": "bor+" }, { "args": { "1": "fro", "2": "favur" }, "expansion": "favur", "name": "m" }, { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "la", "3": "favor" }, "expansion": "Latin favor", "name": "der" } ], "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Anglo-Norman favour, favur, from Latin favor.", "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "enm", "2": "nouns", "g": "", "g2": "", "g3": "", "head": "", "sort": "" }, "expansion": "favour", "name": "head" }, { "args": { "1": "-" }, "expansion": "favour (uncountable)", "name": "enm-noun" } ], "lang": "Middle English", "lang_code": "enm", "pos": "noun", "related": [ { "word": "favourable" }, { "word": "favourere" }, { "word": "favouren" } ], "senses": [ { "glosses": [ "goodwill, benevolent regard" ], "links": [ [ "goodwill", "goodwill" ], [ "benevolent", "benevolent" ], [ "regard", "regard" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "glosses": [ "assistance, support, aid" ], "links": [ [ "assistance", "assistance" ], [ "support", "support" ], [ "aid", "aid" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "glosses": [ "attractiveness, beauty" ], "links": [ [ "attractiveness", "attractiveness" ], [ "beauty", "beauty" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "glosses": [ "partiality, prejudice" ], "links": [ [ "partiality", "partiality" ], [ "prejudice", "prejudice" ] ], "tags": [ "uncountable" ] }, { "categories": [ "Middle English terms with rare senses" ], "glosses": [ "forgiveness, lenience" ], "links": [ [ "forgiveness", "forgiveness" ], [ "lenience", "lenience" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(rare) forgiveness, lenience" ], "tags": [ "rare", "uncountable" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/faːˈvuːr/" }, { "ipa": "/ˈfaːvur/" } ], "synonyms": [ { "word": "faver" }, { "word": "favor" }, { "word": "favoure" }, { "word": "ffavour" }, { "word": "fovour" } ], "word": "favour" } { "forms": [ { "form": "favour oblique singular or", "tags": [ "canonical", "feminine" ] }, { "form": "favours", "tags": [ "oblique", "plural" ] }, { "form": "favour", "tags": [ "nominative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "favours", "tags": [ "nominative", "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "f" }, "expansion": "favour oblique singular, f (oblique plural favours, nominative singular favour, nominative plural favours)", "name": "fro-noun" } ], "lang": "Old French", "lang_code": "fro", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "favor" } ], "categories": [ "Old French entries with incorrect language header", "Old French feminine nouns", "Old French lemmas", "Old French nouns", "Old French terms with usage examples" ], "examples": [ { "english": "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.", "text": "[V]ous leur veulliez faire favour[,] ease et desport sanz faire a eux ou soeffrer estre fait de nully male, moleste, injurie, damage indehucee, destourbance ne empeschement en aucune manere.", "type": "example" } ], "glosses": [ "Late Anglo-Norman spelling of favor" ], "links": [ [ "favor", "favor#Old French" ] ], "tags": [ "Anglo-Norman", "alt-of" ] } ], "word": "favour" }
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