prefer
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
prefer
- [pɹɪˈfɝ] US
- [pɹɪˈfɜː] UK
- [pɹɪˈfəː] Australia, British, Southern, Standard
- [pɹɪˈfɚ(ɹ)] Canada
- [pɹɪˈfəɹ] dialectal
- [pɹɪˈfeːɹ] dialectal
- [pɹɪˈfɛr] Scotland
- [pɹɪˈføː] New Zealand
- [pɹɪˈfeː]
- [pɹɪˈfɛː]
- [pɹɪˈfɜː(ɹ)]
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English preferren, from Anglo-Norman preferer, from Latin praeferō. Displaced native Old English foresettan and foreberan. Doublet of prelate. See also infer, relate and refer, delate and defer, as well as collate and confer among others.
verb prefers · preferring · preferred · præfer · præferre
- To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. I prefer tea to coffee.
- To advance, promote (someone or something). So ſhall you haue a ſhorter iourney to your deſires, by the meanes I ſhall then haue to preferre them. And the impediment moſt profitably remoued, without the which there were no expectation of our proſperitie.
- To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges"). […], let him go, And preſently preferre his ſuite to Cæſar.
- To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend (to). one Master David Hume, who making some use of his purse, gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King Iames.
