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English
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Etymology 1
From Middle French preference, from Medieval Latin preferentia. Doublet of preferans.
Morphologically prefer + -ence.
Pronunciation
Noun
preference (countable and uncountable, plural preferences)
- The selection of one thing or person over others (with the main adposition being "for" in relation to the thing or person, but possibly also "of")
He has a preference for crisp wines.
- The option to so select, and the one selected.
Can I keep my preferences when I upgrade to the new version of this application?
2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
- The state of being preferred over others.
- A strong liking or personal valuation.
- A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.
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selection
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: перава́га f (pjeraváha), вы́бар m (výbar)
- Bulgarian: предпочита́ние (bg) n (predpočitánie), и́збор (bg) m (ízbor)
- Catalan: preferència (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 優選/优选 (yōuxuǎn), 選擇/选择 (zh) (xuǎnzé)
- Finnish: valinta (fi), preferenssi (fi)
- French: préférence (fr) f
- Galician: preferencia (gl) f
- Georgian: არჩევანი (arčevani), პრეფერენცია (ṗreperencia), მჯობინება (mǯobineba), უპირატესობის მინიჭება (uṗiraṭesobis minič̣eba)
- German: Vorliebe (de) f
- Greek:
- Ancient: προαίρεσις f (proaíresis), πρόκριμα n (prókrima)
- Haitian Creole: preferans
- Hebrew: העדפה f (ha'adafá)
- Japanese: 選択 (ja) (せんたく, sentaku)
- Kazakh: қалау (qalau)
- Korean: 선택(選擇) (ko) (seontaek)
- Navajo: siłkidígíí
- Plautdietsch: Läne n
- Portuguese: preferência (pt) f
- Romanian: preferință (ro) f
- Russian: вы́бор (ru) m (výbor), префере́нция (ru) f (preferéncija), предпочте́ние (ru) n (predpočténije)
- Spanish: preferencia (es) f
- Swedish: företräde (sv), preferens (sv)
- Turkish: tercih (tr)
- Ukrainian: перева́га f (pereváha), ви́бір m (výbir)
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option to select or selected
Verb
preference (third-person singular simple present preferences, present participle preferencing, simple past and past participle preferenced)
- (US) To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.
See also
Etymology 2
Noun
preference (uncountable)
- Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe.
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
preference f
- preference (selection of one thing or person over others)
- spotřebitelské preference ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- volební preference ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Declension
Declension of preference (soft feminine)
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Further reading
- preference in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- preference in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
- preference in Internetová jazyková příručka
Middle French
Noun
preference f (plural preferences)
- preference (option preferred over another option)