favorire — meaning in English
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English meaning
- encourage verb To give someone confidence, support, or hope.
- enhance verb To improve the quality, value, or appeal of something.
- foster verb To raise or care for a child who is not biologically one's own.
- nurture noun Care and encouragement given to help someone or something grow and develop.
- prefer verb To like one thing better than another.
Senses
favorire is used for these senses in English:
- encourage To foster, give help or patronage.
- enhance To augment or make something greater.
- foster (transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
- nurture (figuratively, by extension) To encourage, especially the growth or development of something.
- prefer (transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. [from 14th c.]