FAVORED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does favored mean? 

• FAVORED (adjective)
  The adjective FAVORED has 1 sense:

1. preferred above all others and treated with partiality

  Familiarity information: FAVORED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAVORED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Preferred above all others and treated with partiality

Synonyms:

best-loved; favored; favorite; favourite; pet; preferent; preferred

Context example:

the favored child

Similar:

loved (held dear)

 Context examples 

This information seemed to have a mollifying effect, and the irate young man favored Martin with a measuring stare.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Anything you buy for your home that day will be especially favored.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A-DNA is the favored conformation at low water concentrations.

(A-DNA, NCI Thesaurus)

Several things favored him in this.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

B-DNA is the most common DNA conformation in vivo and the favored conformation at high water concentrations.

(B-DNA, NCI Thesaurus)

The favored explanation for short gamma-ray bursts is that they're caused by a jet of debris moving near the speed of light produced in the merger of neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole.

(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)

"To cook by your fire and to sleep under your roof for the night," I had announced on entering old Ebbits's cabin; and he had looked at me blear- eyed and vacuous, while Zilla had favored me with a sour face and a contemptuous grunt.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

You have just stepped up to be next in line to wear the crown of most favored sign of the zodiac, which will take place next year in 2021.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When Buck and Curly grew excited, half wild with fear, he raised his head as though annoyed, favored them with an incurious glance, yawned, and went to sleep again.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There was a line that a week before he would not have favored with a second thought—"God's own mad lover dying on a kiss"; but now it was ever insistent in his mind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)