favour

/ˈfeɪvə/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈfeɪvə/

favour

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final r is pronounced in US English

fa - vour -> favour

Myanmar meaning

(n) ပြင်းပြသည့်ဆန္ဒ။

Full entry

favour ( US favor ) / 'feÇvǝ(r) / n

၁။ [U] ထောက်ခံမှု။ လက်ခံမှု။ အကူအညီ။
win sb's favour ❍ her fall from international/royal favour ❍ He's not in favour with the media right now. ❍ Make-up for men seems to be going out of favour again. ❍ The scheme found favour with the town planners.
၂။ [U] ဘက်လိုက်မှု။
As an examiner she was completely fair, showing no favour to any particular candidate.
၃။ [C] အကူအညီ။
I had a word with her boss, as a special favour to her. ❍ Can I ask a favour (of you)? ❍ Do me a favour and turn the music down while I'm on the phone, will you? ❍ (infml ) The orchestra did Beethoven no favours (ie played his music badly).
၄။ favours [pl] အခွင့်အရေးပေးခြင်း။ be (too) free with one's sexual favours.
v
၁။ ထောက်ခံသည်။
favour an idea/a candidate/a ban on sth ❍ Mr Baker favours changing the law on this.
၂။ အခွင့်အရေးပေးသည်။ The match schedule favours certain teams.
❏ in favour of sb/sth [IDM ]
၁။ ထောက်ခံသည်။ He argued/voted in favour of the death penalty. ❍ There were 247 votes in favour (of the motion) and 152 against. ❍ Public feeling is increasingly in favour of women priests.
၂။ တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက် (သို့) တစ်စုံတစ်ရာဖြင့် အစားထိုးသည်။
She's sold her old car in favour of one that's smaller and more economical.
❏ in sb's favour [IDM ] အကျိုးအမြတ်။ ဘက်။ The court decided in his favour. ❍ bend the rules in sb's favour ❍ The exchange rate is in our favour (ie It will benefit us when we change money).
❏ favoured / 'feÇvǝd / adj
၁။ အခွင့်အရေးရရှိသော။ a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers.
၂။ အလေးသာသော။ the single most favoured option for dealing with traffic congestion.

More examples

[do someone a favour] : Could you do me a favour?
[ask a favour of someone] : Can I ask a favour of you?
[owe someone a favour] : I’ll ask Steve. He owes me a favour.
[return a favour] : Thanks very much for your help. I’ll return the favour some time.
[do something as a favour] : He wouldn’t take any money for his work: he insisted he was doing it as a favour.
[find/gain/win favour (with someone)] : This approach has won more favour in the US than in Britain.
[lose favour (with someone)] : Nuclear power stations have lost favour in recent years.
[curry favour] : An ambitious young man willing to curry favour with his superiors
[show favour to someone] : He was careful to show no favour to anyone.
He was found guilty of selling secrets in return for sexual favours.

Synonyms

abet, accept, accommodate, accommodation, account, admiration, advance, advocate, aid, appreciate, approbate, approbation, approval, approve, assist, assistance, back, backing, be in favor of, be on one's side, be partial to, be the image of, be the picture of, befriend, benediction, benefit, benevolence, benignity, bias, blessing, boon, buck for, champion, championship, choose, commend, compliment, consideration, cooperation, cotton to, countenance, courtesy, disfavour, dispensation, do a kindness, do right by, encourage, encouragement, endorse, errand, esteem, estimation, eulogise, facilitate, fancy, feature, flash on, for, friendliness, further, gift, go for, good turn, good will, grace, gratify, help, hold with, honour, humour, improve, incline, increase, indulge, indulgence, keepsake, kindness, largess, lean toward, like, look like, look up to, make exception, memento, oblige, obligement, okay, opt for, pamper, partiality, patronage, patronise, pick, play favorites, praise, prefer, preference, present, prize, promote, pull strings, regard, regard highly, resemble, respect, reward; help, root for, sanction, service, show consideration, side with, simulate, single out, smile upon, spare, spoil, support, sympathy, take a liking to, take a shine to, take after, take to, think well of, tilt toward, token, treat well, trinket, value

Antonyms

block, censure, criticise, criticism, denial, denunciation, deny, disadvantage, disagree, disallow, disappoint, disapproval, disapprove, discourage, disdain, disfavour, dislike, disregard, disrespect, disservice, dissuade, fairness, frustrate, halt, hate, hinder, hindrance, hurt, ignore, ill will, impartiality, impede, injury, loss, meanness, neglect, obstruct, oppose, opposition, prevent, protest, refuse, reject, stop, thwart, veto