Synonyms of the word

favour

• n. British spelling standard spelling of favor.
• v. British spelling standard spelling of favor.

advance

• v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
• v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
• v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
• v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
• v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
• v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
• v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
• v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
• v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
• n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
• n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
• n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
• n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
• adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
• adj. Preceding.
• adj. Forward.

advantage

• n. (countable) Any condition, circumstance, opportunity or means, particularly favorable to success, or to…
• n. (obsolete) Superiority; mastery; — used with of to specify its nature or with over to specify the other…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Superiority of state, or that which gives it; benefit; gain; profit.
• n. (tennis) The score where one player wins a point after deuce but needs the next to carry the game.
• n. (soccer) The continuation of the game after a foul against the attacking team, because the attacking team…
• n. Interest of money; increase; overplus (as the thirteenth in the baker's dozen).
• v. (transitive) To provide (someone) with an advantage, to give an edge to.
• v. (reflexive) To do something for one's own benefit; to take advantage of.

allow

• v. (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
• v. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
• v. (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
• v. To not bar or obstruct.
• v. (intransitive) To acknowledge or concede.
• v. (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
• v. (transitive) To render physically possible.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
• v. (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

approval

• n. An expression granting permission; an indication of agreement with a proposal; an acknowledgement that…
• n. An expression of favorable acceptance and encouragement; a compliment that also condones.
• n. (especially philately) Something mailed by a seller to a collector to match his stated interests; he can…

benignity

• n. (uncountable) The state of being benign.
• n. (countable) A benign act.

consider

• v. (transitive) To think about seriously.
• v. (transitive) To think of doing.
• v. (ditransitive) To assign some quality to.
• v. (transitive) To look at attentively.
• v. (transitive) To take up as an example.
• v. (transitive, parliamentary procedure) To debate or dispose of a motion.
• v. To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.

countenance

• n. Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.
• n. Favour; support; encouragement.
• n. (obsolete) Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
• n. calm facial expression, composure, self-control.
• v. (transitive) To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.

disposition

• n. The arrangement or placement of certain things.
• n. Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
• n. Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
• n. Control over something.
• n. (law) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.
• n. (law) Final decision or settlement.
• n. (medicine) The destination of a patient after medical treatment such as surgery.
• n. (music) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.
• v. To remove or place in a different position.

elevate

• v. (transitive) To raise (something) to a higher position; to lift.
• v. (transitive) To promote (someone) to a higher rank.
• v. (transitive) To ennoble or honour/honor (someone).
• v. (transitive) To lift someone's spirits; to cheer up.
• v. (transitive) To increase the intensity of something, especially that of sound.
• v. (dated, colloquial, humorous) To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy.
• v. (obsolete, Latinism) To lessen; to detract from; to disparage.
• adj. (obsolete) Elevated; raised aloft.

favor

• n. A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
• n. Goodwill; benevolent regard.
• n. A small gift; a party favor.
• n. Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
• n. The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
• n. (obsolete) Appearance; look; countenance; face.
• n. (law) Partiality; bias.
• n. (archaic) A letter, a written communication.
• n. (obsolete, in the plural) Lovelocks.
• v. To look upon fondly; to prefer.
• v. To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
• v. To treat with care.
• v. (in dialects, including Southern US and Louisiana) To resemble, to look like (another person).

inclination

• n. A physical tilt or bend.
• n. A slant or slope.
• n. A mental tendency.
• n. (geometry) The angle of intersection of a reference plane.
• n. (obsolete) A person or thing loved or admired.

keepsake

• n. Some object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental…
• n. (historical) Specifically, a type of literary album popular in the nineteenth-century, containing scraps…

kindness

• n. The state of being kind.
• n. An instance of kind or charitable behaviour.

let

• v. (transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. (transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).
• v. (transitive) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
• v. (transitive) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
• v. (transitive) Used to introduce an imperative in the first or third person.
• v. (transitive, obsolete except with know) To cause (+ bare infinitive).
• n. The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
• v. (archaic) To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something).
• v. (obsolete) To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening.
• v. (obsolete) To tarry or delay.
• n. An obstacle or hindrance.
• n. (tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.

permit

• v. (now archaic, rare) To hand over, resign (something to someone).
• v. (transitive) To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.
• v. (transitive) To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to.
• v. (intransitive) To allow for, to make something possible.
• v. (intransitive) To allow, to admit (of).
• v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To grant formal authorization for (something).
• v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To attempt to obtain or succeed in obtaining formal authorization for…
• n. (obsolete) Formal permission.
• n. An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal.
• n. A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus.

prefer

• v. (transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better.
• v. (transitive, now dated) To advance, promote (someone or something).
• v. (transitive) To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges").
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend (to).

privilege

• n. (ecclesiastical law, now chiefly historical) An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.
• n. (countable) A particular benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity enjoyed by some but not others;…
• n. An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).
• n. (uncountable) The fact of being privileged; the status or existence of (now especially social or economic)…
• n. A right or immunity enjoyed by a legislative body or its members.
• n. (countable, US, finance, now rare) A stock market option.
• n. (law) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
• n. (computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to…
• v. (archaic) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity;…
• v. (archaic) To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to…

promote

• v. (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
• v. (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell…
• v. (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
• v. (sports, usually in passive form) To elevate to the above league.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
• v. (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
• v. (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education.

raise

• v. (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate.
• v. (transitive) To create, increase or develop.
• v. (poker, intransitive) To respond to a bet by increasing the amount required to continue in the hand.
• v. (arithmetic) To exponentiate, to involute.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a verb) To extract (a subject or other verb argument) out of an inner clause.
• v. (linguistics, transitive, of a vowel) To produce a vowel with the tongue positioned closer to the roof…
• v. To increase the nominal value of (a cheque, money order, etc.) by fraudulently changing the writing or…
• v. (computing) To throw (an exception).
• n. (US) An increase in wages or salary; a rise (UK).
• n. (weightlifting) A shoulder exercise in which the arms are elevated against resistance.
• n. (curling) A shot in which the delivered stone bumps another stone forward.
• n. (poker) A bet which increased the previous bet.
• n. A cairn or pile of stones.

reckon

• v. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
• v. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account;…
• v. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value.
• v. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by…
• v. (intransitive) To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
• v. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and…

regard

• n. (countable) A steady look, a gaze.
• n. One's concern for another; esteem.
• n. (preceded by “in” or “with”) A particular aspect or detail; respect, sense.
• n. (uncountable) The worth or estimation in which something or someone is held.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value,…
• v. To look at; to observe.
• v. (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to.
• v. (transitive) To face toward.
• v. (transitive) To have to do with, to concern.

relic

• n. That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion.
• n. Something old and outdated, possibly kept for sentimental reasons.
• n. (religion) A part of the body of a saint, or an ancient religious object, kept for veneration.

save

• n. In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
• n. (baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins…
• n. (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run…
• n. (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
• n. (role-playing games) A saving throw.
• v. (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
• v. To put aside, to avoid.
• prep. Except; with the exception of.
• conj. (dated) unless; except.

see

• v. (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight.
• v. To form a mental picture of.
• v. (social) To meet, to visit.
• v. (by extension) To ensure that something happens, especially while witnessing it.
• v. (gambling) To respond to another player's bet with a bet of equal value.
• v. (sometimes mystical) To foresee, predict, or prophesy.
• v. To determine by trial or experiment; to find out (if or whether).
• v. (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition.
• v. (used in the imperative) To reference or to study for further details.
• n. A diocese, archdiocese; a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop, especially an archbishop.
• n. The office of a bishop or archbishop; bishopric or archbishopric.
• n. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

souvenir

• n. An item of sentimental value, to remember an event or location.

spare

• adj. Scanty; not abundant or plentiful.
• adj. Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
• adj. Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
• adj. Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
• adj. Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
• adj. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) Slow.
• n. The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
• n. Parsimony; frugal use.
• n. An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
• n. That which has not been used or expended.
• n. A spare part, especially a spare tire.
• n. (bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in…
• n. (bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins…
• n. (Canada) A block of school during which one does not have a class.
• v. To show mercy.
• v. To keep.
• v. (transitive) To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to…

tendency

• n. A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
• n. (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.

token

• n. Something serving as an expression of something else; sign, symbol.
• n. A keepsake, memento, souvenir.
• n. A piece of stamped metal used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or…
• n. (obsolete, sometimes figuratively) Evidence, proof; a confirming detail; physical trace, mark, footprint.
• n. Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion; reason, reasoning.
• n. An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power, a miracle.
• n. An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction; a password.
• n. A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.
• n. Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power,…
• n. A tally.
• n. (philosophy) A particular thing to which a concept applies.
• n. (computing) An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing…
• n. (computing) A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate…
• n. (grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator…
• n. (medicine) A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition,…
• n. (medicine, obsolete) A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of…
• n. (printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some…
• n. (mining) A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one…
• n. (mining) A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.
• n. (rail transport) A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.
• n. (weaving) In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.
• n. (Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted…
• adj. Done as an indication or a pledge; perfunctory, minimal or merely symbolic.
• adj. a minor attempt for appearance sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
• v. To betoken, indicate, portend, designate, denote.
• v. To betroth.
• v. (philosophy) To symbolize, instantiate.

upgrade

• n. An upward grade or slope.
• n. An improved component or replacement item, usually applied to technology.
• n. An improvement.
• v. (transitive) To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more…
• v. (transitive) To replace with something better.
• v. (transitive) To improve the equipment or furnishings of or services rendered to.
• v. (intransitive) To improve in condition or status.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To replace a program with a later version of itself, a version having a higher…
• adv. Up a slope or grade.

vantage

• n. An advantage.
• n. A place or position affording a good view; a vantage point.
• n. A superior or more favorable situation or opportunity; gain; profit; advantage.
• n. (dated, tennis) Alternative form of advantage (score after deuce).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To profit; to aid.

view

• n. (physical) Visual perception.
• n. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
• n. (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination.
• n. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational…
• n. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted…
• n. A wake.
• v. (transitive) To look at.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.