Definizione monolingua

prefer

prefer (third-person singular simple present prefers, present participle preferring, simple past and past participle preferred)

1. (transitive, now dated) To advance, promote (someone). [from 14th c.]
   • 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 [...].

2. (transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. [from 14th c.]

   I prefer tea to coffee.

3. (transitive) To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in ""to prefer charges""). [from 16th c.]
4. (obsolete, transitive) To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend (to). [16th-19th c.]
   • 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.

   • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, XVII:

     Such were the arguments which my will boldly preferred to my conscience, as coin which ought to be current, and which conscience, like a grumbling shopkeeper, was contented to accept [...].

Definizione dizionario prefer

	preferire
	to favor

piacere

prediligere

scegliere

Altri significati:

(to) prefer

(transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. [from 14th c.]

prefer (ii)

(transitive) To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges"). [from 16th c.]

(obsolete, transitive) To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend. [16th-19th c.]

(transitive, now dated) To advance, promote (someone). [from 14th c.]