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Definition of "favour" []

  • Chiefly British Variant of favor. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "favour" in a sentence
  • "The ones she showed most favour to were those who served her best; and even to them it was always _favour_ she showed, not tenderness."
  • "Gappah faces the perennial problem for writers from Africa seeking to win favour from the western media: how to avoid being pigeonholed."
  • "Further musing has led me to think that the polling data released by System 3, that 50% of people are against independence with only 35% in favour, is not so bad for the SNP after all."