Usually means: Act of kindness towards someone.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. favor: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. favor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. favor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. favor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. favor: Vocabulary.com
  6. Favor, favor: Wordnik
  7. favor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Favor, favor: Wiktionary
  9. favor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. favor: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. favor: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. favor: Dictionary.com
  13. favor (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. favor: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Favor (Lonny Bereal song), Favor, The Favor (Brooklyn Nine-Nine): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Favor: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. favor: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. favor: Rhymezone
  19. favor, favor: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. favor: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. favor: Free Dictionary
  22. favor: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. favor: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. favor: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. favor-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. favor: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. favor: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. favor: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. FAVOR: Acronym Finder
  4. favor: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Favor: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone).
noun:  Goodwill; benevolent regard.
noun:  A small gift; a party favor.
noun:  Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
noun:  The object of regard; person or thing favoured.
noun:  (obsolete) Appearance; look; countenance; face.
noun:  (law) Partiality; bias
noun:  (archaic) A letter, a written communication.
noun:  (obsolete) Anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favor.
noun:  (historical) A ribbon or similar small item that is worn as an adornment, especially in celebration of an event.
verb:  To look upon fondly; to prefer.
verb:  To use more often.
verb:  To encourage, conduce to
verb:  To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward.
verb:  To treat with care.
verb:  (in dialects, including Southern US and Cajun) To resemble; especially, to look like (another person).
noun:  A surname.

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