favoured

English

Alternative forms

• favored (American)
• favor’d (obsolete)
• favour’d (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪ.vɚd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪ.vəd/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: fa‧voured

Adjective

favoured (comparative more favoured, superlative most favoured)

1. Treated or regarded with partiality.
2. (in combination) Having a certain appearance or physical features.

   ill-favoured; well-favoured; hard-favoured

3. (dated) Wearing a favour.

   a white-favoured footman

Derived terms

• hard-favoured
• ill-favoured
• most favoured nation
• well-favoured

 

Translations

treated or regarded with partiality

• Bulgarian: привилегирован (bg) (privilegirovan)
• Hungarian: kivételezett (hu)
• Maori: rorotu
• Spanish: agraciado (es)

Verb

favoured

1. simple past and past participle of favour

Related terms

• favour