"prefer" meaning in English

See prefer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: [pɹɪˈfɝ] [General-American], [prɪˈfɜː] [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: en-us-prefer.ogg Forms: prefers [present, singular, third-person], preferring [participle, present], preferred [participle, past], preferred [past]
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English preferren, from Anglo-Norman preferer, from Latin praeferō. Displaced native Old English foresettan and foreberan. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰer-}}, {{inh|en|enm|preferren}} Middle English preferren, {{der|en|xno|preferer}} Anglo-Norman preferer, {{der|en|la|praeferō}} Latin praeferō, {{m+|ang|foresettan}} Old English foresettan Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} prefer (third-person singular simple present prefers, present participle preferring, simple past and past participle preferred)
  1. (transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. Tags: transitive Translations (to favor): preferon [feminine, masculine] (Albanian), προτιμάω (protimáō) (Ancient Greek), προαιρέω (proairéō) (Ancient Greek), προκρίνω (prokrínō) (Ancient Greek), فَضَّلَ (faḍḍala) (Arabic), آثَرَ (ʔāṯara) (Arabic), նախընտրել (naxəntrel) (Armenian), üstün tutmaq (Azerbaijani), tərcih etmək (Azerbaijani), nahiago izan (Basque), nahitu (Basque), аддава́ць перева́гу (addavácʹ pjerjeváhu) [imperfective] (Belarusian), адда́ць перева́гу (addácʹ pjerjeváhu) [perfective] (Belarusian), предпочи́там (predpočítam) [imperfective] (Bulgarian), preferir (Catalan), estimar-se més (Catalan), 比較喜歡 (Chinese Mandarin), 比较喜欢 (bǐjiào xǐhuan) (Chinese Mandarin), bos gwell gans (note: with subject and object reversed) (Cornish), upřednostňovat (Czech), dát přednost (Czech), preferovat (Czech), foretrække (Danish), (de) voorkeur geven (aan) (Dutch), verkiezen (boven) (Dutch), prefereren (Dutch), preferi (Esperanto), pliŝati (Esperanto), eelistama (Estonian), pitää parempana (Finnish), préférer (French), მჯობინება (mǯobineba) (Georgian), უპირატესობის მინიჭება (uṗiraṭesobis minič̣eba) (Georgian), vorziehen (German), bevorzugen (German), präferieren (German), προτιμάω (protimáo) (Greek), pito (Haitian Creole), makemake (Hawaiian), הֶעֱדִיף (he'edíf) (Hebrew), पसंद करना (pasand karnā) (Hindi), szívesebben (tesz) (Hungarian), jobban szeret/tetszik (Hungarian), előnyben részesít (Hungarian), is fearr le (note: with subject and object reversed) (Irish), preferire (Italian), favorire (Italian), …の方を好む (...no hō o konomu) (alt: …のほうをこのむ) (Japanese), …の方が好きである (... no hō ga suki de aru) (alt: …のほうがすきである) (Japanese), ចូលចិត្ត (coul cət) (Khmer), 더 좋아하다 (-deo joahada) (Korean), 선호(選好)하다 (seonhohada) (Korean), ສະເພາະ (sa phǫ) (Lao), addīcō (Latin), māvolō (Latin), mālō (Latin), antehabeō (Latin), pono (Lingala), kopono (Lingala), претпо́чита (pretpóčita) (Macedonian), префери́ра (preferíra) (Macedonian), lebih suka (Malay), share lesh (note: with subject and object reversed) (Manx), mariu (Maori), эрхэмлэх (erxemlex) (Mongolian), चुन्नु (cunnu) (Nepali), préféther (Norman), foretrekke (Norwegian Bokmål), foreberan (Old English), foresettan (Old English), بگنمك (beğenmek) (Ottoman Turkish), ترجیح دادن (tarjih dâdan) (Persian), woleć (Polish), preferir (Portuguese), allikachiy (Quechua), prefera (Romanian), предпочита́ть (predpočitátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), предпоче́сть (predpočéstʹ) [perfective] (Russian), preferirati [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), preferir (Spanish), anteponer (Spanish), föredraga (Swedish), föredra (Swedish), mas gusto kumikiling (Tagalog), ชอบ ~ มากกว่า (alt: chɔ̂ɔp ~ mâak-gwàa) (Thai), འདོད་པ་ ('dod pa) (Tibetan), tercih etmek (Turkish), віддава́ти перева́гу (viddaváty pereváhu) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), thích hơn (Vietnamese), bod yn well gan (note: with subject and object reversed) (Welsh), פּרעפֿערירן (preferirn) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-prefer-en-verb-4zX6J8gf Disambiguation of 'to favor': 89 5 2 4
  2. (transitive, now dated) To advance, promote (someone or something). Tags: dated, transitive
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  3. (transitive) To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges"). Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-prefer-en-verb-jy8mPN4M
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend (to). Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-prefer-en-verb-zoXnGemJ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: forechoose, præfer [16th–17th c.], præferre [16th–17th c.], preferre [14th–17th c.]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "disprefer"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*bʰer-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
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      "args": {
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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "preferren"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "xno",
        "3": "preferer"
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      "name": "der"
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "praeferō"
      },
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      },
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    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English preferren, from Anglo-Norman preferer, from Latin praeferō. Displaced native Old English foresettan and foreberan.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prefers",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preferring",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "preferred",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "preferred",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "pre‧fer"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "nonpreferred"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "preferable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "preference"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "preferendum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "preferential"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "preferer"
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    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "preferment"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "preferrable"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "preferred creditor"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "preferred provider"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "preferred stock"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "preferred stockholder"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "preferrer"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "prelate"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
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  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I prefer tea to coffee.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I'd prefer it if you didn't do it.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 15, column 2:",
          "text": "You that will be leſſe fearefull, then diſcreet,\n That loue the fundamentall part of State\n More then you doubt the change on’t: That preferre\n A Noble life, before a Long,[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"My tastes,\" he said, still smiling, \"incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet.\" And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: \"I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…].\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, The Quarterly Review, volume 207, page 119:",
          "text": "The February kid he should retain, also the full-grown goat; the goatling he should sell, also its kid, unless he prefers using it for the table. Thus he has not only a good supply of milk, but he has an early kid ready for next year, […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Robert Sapolsky, Behave, Penguin, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Similar, if milder, versions of the same are reported in some (but not all) studies of humans, ranging from the Wellesley effect, discussed in the introduction, to heterosexual women preferring the smell of high-testosterone men.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 February 26, James Graham, Adam Johnson, “The Return of the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend”, in FAIR.org:",
          "text": "You don’t attack politicians because you prefer them; you attack them because you’re scared of them.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better."
      ],
      "id": "en-prefer-en-verb-4zX6J8gf",
      "links": [
        [
          "habit",
          "habit"
        ],
        [
          "choosing",
          "choosing"
        ],
        [
          "favor",
          "favor"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "sq",
          "lang": "Albanian",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "preferon"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "faḍḍala",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "فَضَّلَ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ʔāṯara",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "آثَرَ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "naxəntrel",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "նախընտրել"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "üstün tutmaq"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "tərcih etmək"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "eu",
          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "nahiago izan"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "eu",
          "lang": "Basque",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "nahitu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "addavácʹ pjerjeváhu",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "аддава́ць перева́гу"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "be",
          "lang": "Belarusian",
          "roman": "addácʹ pjerjeváhu",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "адда́ць перева́гу"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "predpočítam",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "предпочи́там"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "preferir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "estimar-se més"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "比較喜歡"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "bǐjiào xǐhuan",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "比较喜欢"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "kw",
          "lang": "Cornish",
          "note": "with subject and object reversed",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "bos gwell gans"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "upřednostňovat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "dát přednost"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "preferovat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "foretrække"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "roman": "aan",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "(de) voorkeur geven"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "verkiezen (boven)"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "prefereren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "preferi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "pliŝati"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "et",
          "lang": "Estonian",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "eelistama"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "pitää parempana"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "préférer"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "mǯobineba",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "მჯობინება"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "uṗiraṭesobis minič̣eba",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "უპირატესობის მინიჭება"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "vorziehen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "bevorzugen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "präferieren"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "protimáo",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "προτιμάω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "protimáō",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "προτιμάω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "proairéō",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "προαιρέω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "grc",
          "lang": "Ancient Greek",
          "roman": "prokrínō",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "προκρίνω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "ht",
          "lang": "Haitian Creole",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "pito"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "89 5 2 4",
          "code": "haw",
          "lang": "Hawaiian",
          "sense": "to favor",
          "word": "makemake"
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          "text": "You that will be leſſe fearefull, then diſcreet,\n That loue the fundamentall part of State\n More then you doubt the change on’t: That preferre\n A Noble life, before a Long,[…]",
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          "text": "\"My tastes,\" he said, still smiling, \"incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet.\" And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: \"I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…].\"",
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          "text": "The February kid he should retain, also the full-grown goat; the goatling he should sell, also its kid, unless he prefers using it for the table. Thus he has not only a good supply of milk, but he has an early kid ready for next year, […]",
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          "text": "Similar, if milder, versions of the same are reported in some (but not all) studies of humans, ranging from the Wellesley effect, discussed in the introduction, to heterosexual women preferring the smell of high-testosterone men.",
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          "ref": "2019 February 26, James Graham, Adam Johnson, “The Return of the Inexplicable Republican Best Friend”, in FAIR.org:",
          "text": "You don’t attack politicians because you prefer them; you attack them because you’re scared of them.",
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          "text": "So ſhall you haue a ſhorter iourney to your deſires, by the meanes I ſhall then haue to preferre them. And the impediment moſt profitably remoued, without the which there were no expectation of our proſperitie.",
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          "text": "And the maiden pleaſed him, and ſhe obtained kindneſſe of him,[…], and hee preferred her and her maids, vnto the beſt place of the houſe of the women.",
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          "text": "For this Reaſon, I preſume, it was, that ſhe took ſo much Compaſſion upon me ; conſidering herſelf a Slave in a ſtrange Country, and on­ly preferr’d to my Maſter’s Bed by Courteſy.",
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      "word": "estimar-se més"
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      "word": "比較喜歡"
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    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "verkiezen (boven)"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "prefereren"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "preferi"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "pliŝati"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "eelistama"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "pitää parempana"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "préférer"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "mǯobineba",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "მჯობინება"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "uṗiraṭesobis minič̣eba",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "უპირატესობის მინიჭება"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "vorziehen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "bevorzugen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "präferieren"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "protimáo",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "προτιμάω"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "protimáō",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "προτιμάω"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "proairéō",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "προαιρέω"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "prokrínō",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "προκρίνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "ht",
      "lang": "Haitian Creole",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "pito"
    },
    {
      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "makemake"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "he'edíf",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "הֶעֱדִיף"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "pasand karnā",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "पसंद करना"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "szívesebben (tesz)"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "jobban szeret/tetszik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "előnyben részesít"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "note": "with subject and object reversed",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "is fearr le"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "preferire"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "favorire"
    },
    {
      "alt": "…のほうをこのむ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "...no hō o konomu",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "…の方を好む"
    },
    {
      "alt": "…のほうがすきである",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "... no hō ga suki de aru",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "…の方が好きである"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "coul cət",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "ចូលចិត្ត"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "-deo joahada",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "더 좋아하다"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "seonhohada",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "선호(選好)하다"
    },
    {
      "code": "lo",
      "lang": "Lao",
      "roman": "sa phǫ",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "ສະເພາະ"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "addīcō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "māvolō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "mālō"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "antehabeō"
    },
    {
      "code": "ln",
      "lang": "Lingala",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "pono"
    },
    {
      "code": "ln",
      "lang": "Lingala",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "kopono"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "pretpóčita",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "претпо́чита"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "preferíra",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "префери́ра"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "lebih suka"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "note": "with subject and object reversed",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "share lesh"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "mariu"
    },
    {
      "code": "mn",
      "lang": "Mongolian",
      "roman": "erxemlex",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "эрхэмлэх"
    },
    {
      "code": "ne",
      "lang": "Nepali",
      "roman": "cunnu",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "चुन्नु"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "préféther"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "foretrekke"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "foreberan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "foresettan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "beğenmek",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "بگنمك"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "tarjih dâdan",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "ترجیح دادن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "woleć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "preferir"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "allikachiy"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "prefera"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "predpočitátʹ",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "предпочита́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "predpočéstʹ",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "предпоче́сть"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "preferirati"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "preferir"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "anteponer"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "föredraga"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "föredra"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "mas gusto kumikiling"
    },
    {
      "alt": "chɔ̂ɔp ~ mâak-gwàa",
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "ชอบ ~ มากกว่า"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "'dod pa",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "འདོད་པ་"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "tercih etmek"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "viddaváty pereváhu",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "віддава́ти перева́гу"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "thích hơn"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "note": "with subject and object reversed",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "bod yn well gan"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "preferirn",
      "sense": "to favor",
      "word": "פּרעפֿערירן"
    }
  ],
  "word": "prefer"
}

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