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- pronunciation:
- pre
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rns
[or]
pref
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a person or thing that is preferred.
Do you have a preference for a window seat or an aisle seat?The hotel tries to cater to the preferences of its clientele.I have a strong preference for coffee over tea in the mornings.- similar words:
- choice, druthers, inclination, pick, pleasure, selection, thing
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| definition 2: |
advantage given to one over others.
She was given preference for the promotion because she was senior.- synonyms:
- advantage, favor, partiality
- similar words:
- head start, precedence, priority
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| definition 3: |
the act of preferring or state of being preferred.
He lives with a roommate in preference to living alone.- synonyms:
- fondness, inclination, liking, partiality, predilection
- similar words:
- discretion, fancy, like, propensity
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| related words: |
alternative, bag, bent, desire, favorite, favoritism, fondness, inclination, interest, liking, partiality, penchant, tendency, volition, weakness, will, wish |
adjective + (n.)preference
aesthetic,
affirmative,
consistent,
cultural,
dietary,
distinct,
erotic,
ethnic,
generalized,
given,
ideological,
individual,
marked,
mating,
musical,
overwhelming,
partisan,
perceptual,
personal,
racial,
religious,
sexual,
slight,
stated,
strong,
subjective,
unfair,
vocational
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verb + (n.)preference
accommodate, assess, ban, base, exhibit, express, favor, indicate, influence, oppose, reflect, shape, suit
(n.)preference
+ verb
differ, vary
noun + (n.)preference
athlete,
attitude,
basis,
bid,
coaching,
consumer,
discrimination,
domain,
female,
gender,
habitat,
hiring,
interaction,
learning,
legacy,
lifestyle,
mail,
mate,
matter,
novelty,
personality,
privacy,
quota,
race,
respondent,
style,
taste,
trait,
user,
variation,
voter,
voting
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The word preference
contains the following parts:
pre-
Latin
prefix
that means before
  Example words:
preamble, prearrange, precaution, precede, preclude, preconceive, precook, precursor, predate, predetermine, predict, predictable, prediction, preface, prefect, prefer, preferable, preference, prefix, preheat, prejudice, premonition, prescriptible, present1, preside, president
- synonyms:
- pro-2, ante-
- antonyms:
- post-
fer, lat2, -late
Latin
root
that means carry, bring
More about this word part:
Example words:
ablate, ablation, afferent, aquifer, collate, collation, confer, conference, conifer, correlate, defer1, differ, different, elate, elation, ferry, infer, offer, prefer, preference, preferable, prelate, proliferate, refer, relate, relation, relative, rotifer, suffer, transfer, translate, translation
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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