Prefer

Verb

 * 1)  To advance, promote (someone).
 * 2) *1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.2:
 * Tiberius preferred many to honours in his time, because they were famous whoremasters and sturdy drinkers [...].
 * 1)  To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better.
 * I prefer tea to coffee.
 * 1)  To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges").
 * 2)  To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend.
 * 3) *1630, John Smith, True Travels, in Kupperman 1988, p. 36:
 * one Master David Hume, who making some use of his purse, gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King James.

Adverbs for Prefer
vastly; personally; infinitely; particularly; politically; individually; overwhelmingly; unaccountably; emotionally.

Thesaurus
advance, aggrandize, aim at, approve, be desirous of, be disposed to, be partial to, bring before, bring forward, bring up, broach, choose, choose rather, commend to attention, cull, desiderate, desire, discriminate, elect, elevate, embrace, ennoble, enter, espouse, esteem, exalt, extend, fancy, favor, feel about it, file, graduate, have a bias, have designs on, have preference, have rather, hold forth, hold out, honor before, incline toward, introduce, kick upstairs, knight, launch, lay before, lean toward, lean towards, like, like better, lodge, look at it, love, lust, lust after, make a motion, mark, moot, move, offer, offer a resolution, open up, opt for, pass, pick, play favorites, please, pose, postulate, prefer to, present, proffer, promote, propose, proposition, propound, put, put forth, put forward, put it to, put up, raise, rather, recommend, see fit, select, set before, set forth, show preference, single out, start, submit, suggest, take, take to, tend toward, tender, think best, think fit, think proper, treat unequally, up, upgrade, view, want, wish, wish to goodness, wish very much, would fain do

Alternative forms

 * præfer
 * preferre

Etymology
From, preferer:, (French préférer:), from  praefero:.

Translations

 * Arabic: (fáDDala)
 * Chinese: 比较喜欢 (bǐjiào xǐhuān)
 * Czech: upřednostňovat,
 * Danish: foretrække
 * Dutch: voorkeur geven,
 * Esperanto:
 * Filipino: mas gusto kumikiling
 * Finnish: pitää parempana
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew: העדיף
 * Hungarian: szívesebben tesz, jobban szeret,


 * Irish: with subject and object reversed
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: の方を好む (のほうをこのむ, no hō o konomu)
 * Korean: -더 촣아하다 (-deo choahada)
 * Latin:, malo
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: föredraga,
 * Thai: ~ มากกว่า ~ (chôp ~ mâak gwàa ~)

Derived terms

 * preference
 * preferential