penchant
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penchant
- /ˈpɒnʃɒn/ UK
- /ˈpɛnt͡ʃənt/ UK
- /ˈpɛnt͡ʃənt/ US
Rhymes with -ɒnʃɒn, -ɛntʃənt
Where it comes from
Unadapted borrowing from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang”).
noun penchants
- A taste, liking, or inclination for (something). He has a penchant for fine wine.
- A card game resembling bezique.
- In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.
Similar: desire
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: preference, predilection, taste, affection, fondness, affinity, susceptibility, trend, propensity, tendency, emphasis, bias, thing, hard-on, weakness, kneeling
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Similar: desire
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noun taste, liking, or inclination (for)
| Español | afición, enza, querencia |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 傾向 keikō |
| 中文 | 愛好 /爱好 àihào, 傾向 /倾向 qīngxiàng |
| Português | inclinação, predisposição |
| Français | penchant |
| Deutsch | Vorliebe, Hang, Neigung |
| Italiano | inclinazione, apprezzamento |
| Русский | скло́нность sklónnostʹ, предпочте́ние predpočténije |
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