"penchant" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈpɒnʃɒn/ [UK], [ˈpɑ̃ʃɑ̃] [UK], /ˈpɛnt͡ʃənt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-penchant.wav [Southern-England] 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, {{m|fr|pencher||to tilt, to lean}} pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), {{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, {{m|la||pendicāre}} pendicāre, {{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), 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 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): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 60 36 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 14 53 33 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
    Sense id: en-penchant-en-noun-KURulpQf Topics: card-games, games
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: 1 99

Inflected forms

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      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
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        "2": "fr",
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      },
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      "name": "ubor"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "3": "",
        "4": "to tilt, to lean"
      },
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      "name": "m"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "-"
      },
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    },
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        "2": "fro",
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        "4": "",
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      },
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    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "VL.",
        "3": "-"
      },
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      "name": "uder"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "",
        "3": "pendicāre"
      },
      "expansion": "pendicāre",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
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        "4": "",
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      },
      "expansion": "Latin pendere (“to hang”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "He has a penchant for fine wine.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 October, “New reading on railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 640",
          "text": "THE LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. By O. S. Nock. Ian Allan. 30s.\n[...] One scarcely imagined, for example, that the great steel works at Crewe owed its existence to Sir Richard Moon's penchant for the principle of \"Do it yourself\", a principle born of a methodical, economical and far-seeing mind.",
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        },
        {
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 September 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, in RAIL, number 940, page 74",
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      ],
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          "taste"
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          "liking"
        ],
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          "inclination",
          "inclination"
        ]
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      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Card games"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A card game resembling bezique."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "card game",
          "card game"
        ],
        [
          "bezique",
          "bezique"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(card games, uncountable) A card game resembling bezique."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "card-games",
        "games"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Card games"
      ],
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        "In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time."
      ],
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        [
          "card game",
          "card game"
        ],
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          "queen",
          "queen"
        ],
        [
          "jack",
          "jack"
        ],
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          "suit",
          "suit"
        ]
      ],
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        "(card games) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "card-games",
        "games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɒnʃɒn/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpɑ̃ʃɑ̃]",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɛnt͡ʃənt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒnʃɒn"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛntʃənt"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "desire"
    },
    {
      "word": "predilection"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "sklonnost",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "склонност"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "predrazpoloženie",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "предразположение"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "word": "愛好"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "àihào",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "word": "爱好"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "word": "傾向"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qīngxiàng",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "word": "倾向"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vášeň"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "neiging"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "voorkeur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "word": "mieltymys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "penchant"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "midreḳileba",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "word": "მიდრეკილება"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "misc̣rapeba",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "word": "მისწრაფება"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Vorliebe"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Hang"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Neigung"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "inclinazione"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "apprezzamento"
    },
    {
      "alt": "けいこう",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "keikō",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "word": "傾向"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "word": "forkjærlighet"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "word": "عاشق چیزی بودن"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ],
      "word": "عشقِ چیزی بودن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "skłonność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "smykałka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inclinação"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "predisposição"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sklónnostʹ",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "скло́нность"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "preference",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "predpočténije",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "предпочте́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "word": "inclinación"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "word": "gusto"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "böjelse"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "förkärlek"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "försmak"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gogwydd"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "taste, liking, or inclination (for)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tuedd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "penchant"
}

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    "French countable nouns",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French lemmas",
    "French masculine nouns",
    "French non-lemma forms",
    "French nouns",
    "French present participles"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "penchants",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "fr-noun"
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  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "penchant"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "penchant",
          "penchant#English"
        ]
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      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
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}

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  "categories": [
    "French countable nouns",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French lemmas",
    "French masculine nouns",
    "French non-lemma forms",
    "French nouns",
    "French present participles"
  ],
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        "1": "fr",
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      "expansion": "penchant",
      "name": "head"
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  "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"
        ]
      ],
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        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
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}

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