FAVOR
What does "FAVOR" mean?
A kind or helpful act done for someone, or approval and support.
Meanings
- A helpful act performed out of goodwill. Could you do me a favor and water the plants?
- Approval, support, or preferential regard. The proposal found favor with the committee.
- A small gift given to guests at a celebration. Each guest took home a little wedding favor.
- To prefer, support, or treat with partiality. The plan favors large companies over small ones.
- To resemble (a relative) in appearance. She favors her grandmother around the eyes. informal
Did you know?
- The American 'favor' lost its 'u' largely thanks to Noah Webster, whose 1828 dictionary deliberately trimmed the British '-our' endings to make American spelling simpler and more distinct.
Word origin
From Latin 'favor' meaning 'goodwill or kindness', from 'favere' 'to be favorable'; English took it through Old French 'favour', and American spelling later dropped the 'u'.
Remember it
FAVOR holds 'favo(u)r' for the British - Americans simply did each other the favor of dropping the U.
A little poem
A small kindness, lightly lent-
remembered long after it's spent.
couplet
Wordplay
- Why did the American spelling lose a letter? It was just doing everyone a favor.
What it teaches
A favor costs the giver little and weighs in the receiver's memory for years.
Quick facts
What does FAVOR mean?
A kind or helpful act done for someone, or approval and support.
Is FAVOR a valid word?
Yes — FAVOR is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is FAVOR?
FAVOR has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does FAVOR come from?
From Latin 'favor' meaning 'goodwill or kindness', from 'favere' 'to be favorable'; English took it through Old French 'favour', and American spelling later dropped the 'u'.
What can FAVOR teach us?
A favor costs the giver little and weighs in the receiver's memory for years.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.