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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈpɒnʃɒn/ [UK], [ˈpɑ̃ʃɑ̃] [UK], /ˈpɛnt͡ʃənt/ [UK], /ˈpɛnt͡ʃənt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-penchant.wav Forms: penchants [plural]
Rhymes: -ɒnʃɒn, -ɛntʃənt Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*(s)pend-}}, {{ubor|en|fr|penchant}} Unadapted borrowing from French penchant, {{uder|en|frm|-}} Middle French, {{uder|en|fro|pengier||to tilt, be out of line}} Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), {{uder|en|VL.|-}} Vulgar Latin, {{uder|en|la|pendere||to hang}} Latin pendere (“to hang”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} penchant (countable and uncountable, plural penchants)
  1. Taste, liking, or inclination (for). Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (taste, liking, or inclination (for)): склонност (sklonnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), предразположение (predrazpoloženie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 愛好 (Chinese Mandarin), 爱好 (àihào) (Chinese Mandarin), 傾向 (Chinese Mandarin), 倾向 (qīngxiàng) (Chinese Mandarin), vášeň [feminine] (Czech), neiging [feminine] (Dutch), voorkeur [feminine] (Dutch), mieltymys (Finnish), penchant [masculine] (French), მიდრეკილება (midreḳileba) (Georgian), მისწრაფება (misc̣rapeba) (Georgian), Vorliebe [feminine] (German), Hang [masculine] (German), Neigung [feminine] (German), inclinazione [masculine] (Italian), apprezzamento [masculine] (Italian), 傾向 (keikō) (alt: けいこう) (Japanese), forkjærlighet (Norwegian), عاشق چیزی بودن (Persian), عشقِ چیزی بودن [informal] (Persian), skłonność [feminine] (Polish), smykałka [feminine] (Polish), inclinação [feminine] (Portuguese), predisposição [feminine] (Portuguese), скло́нность (sklónnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), предпочте́ние (predpočténije) (english: preference) [neuter] (Russian), inclinación (Spanish), gusto (Spanish), predilección [feminine] (Spanish), propensión [feminine] (Spanish), proclividad [feminine] (Spanish), preferencia [feminine] (Spanish), afición [feminine] (Spanish), pasión [feminine] (Spanish), böjelse [common-gender] (Swedish), förkärlek [common-gender] (Swedish), försmak [common-gender] (Swedish), gogwydd [masculine] (Welsh), tuedd [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-penchant-en-noun-Os~P8Cdg Categories (other): Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 40 13 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 48 14 38 Disambiguation of 'taste, liking, or inclination (for)': 97 1 1
  2. (card games, uncountable) A card game resembling bezique. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Card games
    Sense id: en-penchant-en-noun-0dC66g8o Categories (other): Terms with Mandarin translations Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 40 13 47 Topics: card-games, games
  3. (card games) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Card games
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: desire, predilection

Noun [French]

Forms: penchants [plural]
Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} penchant m (plural penchants)
  1. penchant Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-penchant-fr-noun-Scf5U6FK

Verb [French]

Head templates: {{head|fr|present participle}} penchant
  1. present participle of pencher Tags: form-of, participle, present Form of: pencher
    Sense id: en-penchant-fr-verb-k0hXOb4x Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 25 75

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Just like Marple, there's a plaque at the London terminus [Paddington] commemorating a fictional character - a polite, friendly little bear from darkest Peru who has a penchant for marmalade sarnies.",
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    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French lemmas",
    "French masculine nouns",
    "French non-lemma forms",
    "French nouns",
    "French present participles",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        "1": "fr",
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      },
      "expansion": "penchant",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French present participles"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "pencher"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle of pencher"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pencher",
          "pencher#French"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "penchant"
}

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