{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈfeɪvər" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/favor.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/favor.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/favor.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/favor.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English favour, favor, faver, from Anglo-Norman favour, from mainland Old French favor, from Latin favor (“good will; kindness; partiality”), from faveō (“to be kind to”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂weh₁yeti (“to be favourable to”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine, glow light”). Respelled in American English to more closely match its Latin etymon. Compare also Danish favør (“favor”), Irish fabhar (“favor”), from the same Romance source." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).\nHe did me a favor when he took the time to drive me home." }, { "mean": "Goodwill; benevolent regard.\nShe enjoyed the queen's favor.\nto fall out of favor\n1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She looked around expectantly, and recognizing Mrs. Cooke's maid Miss Thorn greeted her with a smile which greatly prepossessed us in her favor.\n2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2:Samara: She confuses her victims, twists their feelings. They will do anything for her favor." }, { "mean": "A small gift; a party favor.\nAt the holiday dinner, the hosts had set a favor by each place setting.\nA marriage favour is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.\n1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Here, Fluellen; wear thou this favour for me andstick it in thy cap: when Alencon and myself weredown together, I plucked this glove from his helm \n1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 22, in Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC:The rain drove into the bride and bridegroom's faces as they passed to the chariot. The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets." }, { "mean": "Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.\n1726 October 28, , Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.  , volume I, London: Benj Motte, , →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput):I could not discover the lenity and favour of this sentence." }, { "mean": "The object of regard; person or thing favoured.\n1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:All these his wondrous works, but chiefly man, / His chief delight and favour." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Appearance; look; countenance; face.\nc. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :This boy is fair, of female favour." }, { "mean": "(law) Partiality; bias" }, { "mean": "(archaic) A letter, a written communication.\n1748, , “Letter LXVIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: , volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: S Richardson; , →OCLC:I will now take some notice of your last favour; but being so far behind-hand with you, must be brief." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) A ribbon or similar small item that is worn as an adornment, especially in celebration of an event.\n1853 May, E.R. Bowen, “Bride-Maids and Bride-Cake”, in Peterson's Magazine, volume 23, number 5, page 306:The bride favors, or true love knots, ancient symbols of love, faith, and friendship, pointing out the indisssoluble tie of affection and duty, did not, as might be supposed, take their name of true love knots from the words \"true\" and \"love,\", but from the Danish verb \"Trulofa,\" that is, \"I plight my troth of faith.\" These knots were formerly distributed in great abundance; were worn in the hats by gentlemen, and consisted of variously colored ribbons, which were chosen by the bride and her maids, sometimes after long and serious discussions.\n1898, Melvin Ballou Gilbert, The Director - Volume 1, page 210:Of all the new war cotillion favors yet devised there is hardly anything more novel than these. Aigrettes that are bunches of ribbons, red, white and blue, designed to be pinned in the hair at once, make up another favor.\n1900, “From Abroad”, in The International, volume 8, page 415:Since the good news young folk—and old, too, for that matter—bedeck themselves with favors. Charms hand pendent from the watch chain, from neck pins.\n1991, Anthony G. Barrand, Six Fools and a Dancer: The Timeless Way of the Morris, page 178:We can and should borrow choice items, such as bell pads, favors and flowered hats , which can easily be adapted \n2013, R. Turner Wilcox, The Mode in Hats and Headdress, page 109: honor was bestowed upon the latter because he was the proud possessor of luxurious blond hair and had the most beautiful single curl tied with a ribbon. The lovelock was thereafter called a cadcnettc and the ribbon bowknots, favors." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "To look upon fondly; to prefer.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Luke 1:28:And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.\n1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess‎:Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white." }, { "mean": "To use more often.\n2007, Bert Casper, Shadow Upon the Dream: Book 1: Barrûn, page 537:\n alone, without having to favor his right, uninjured leg," }, { "mean": "To encourage, conduce to\n1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)‎:These are sold by their parents (sometimes stolen from them), about the age of 4, and educated, while they are also subjected to a special physical training, which includes massage of the gluteal regions to favor development, dilatation of the anus, and epilation (which is not, however, practised by Chinese women)." }, { "mean": "To do a favor for; to show beneficence toward.\nWould you favor us with a poetry reading?" }, { "mean": "To treat with care.\nFavoring your sore leg will only injure the other one." }, { "mean": "(in dialects, including Southern US and Louisiana) To resemble; especially, to look like (another person).\n1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:\n‘Mandy?’ he said, and stared at the girl. ‘Don't favor her too much.’ ‘Favors her dad,’ Latha said, and looked at him.\n1989, Rayford Clayton Reddell, Robert Galyean, Growing Fragrant Plants (page 13)\n chamomile and apples? Those particular smellalikes tested our imagination. Yet much of what he said was right on the mark. The scent of sweet peas, for instance, does indeed favor that of wisteria.\n2012, Rick Bass, A Thousand Deer: Four Generations of Hunting and the Hill Country, →ISBN, page 63:The way things repeat themselves, across time — not just in the replications and recombinations of family and place (\"He favors his momma, she favors her daddy\"), but in the accretion of like patterns" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }