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Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
Alan Dundes

Meaning of "penchant" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PENCHANT

From French, from pencher to incline, from Latin pendēre to be suspended.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PENCHANT

penchant  [ˈpɒŋʃɒŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PENCHANT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Penchant is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PENCHANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Preference

The term preferences is used in a variety of related, but not identical, ways in the scientific literature. This makes it necessary to make explicit the sense in which the term is used in different social sciences.

Definition of penchant in the English dictionary

The definition of penchant in the dictionary is a strong inclination or liking; bent or taste.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PENCHANT


Gaoxiong
ˌjaʊəˈʃɒŋ
souchong
ˈsuːˈʃɒŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PENCHANT

penannular
penates
pence
pencel
Penchi
pencil
pencil box
pencil case
pencil cedar
pencil crayon
pencil in
pencil pusher
pencil rubber
pencil sharpener
pencil skirt
penciler
pencilled
penciller
pencilling
pencraft

WORDS THAT END LIKE PENCHANT

bacchant
chant
coal merchant
couchant
disenchant
elephant
enchant
etchant
Gregorian chant
law merchant
merchant
plainchant
plumber´s merchant
provision merchant
scrap merchant
seed merchant
speed merchant
timber merchant
trenchant
wine merchant
wool merchant

Synonyms and antonyms of penchant in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PENCHANT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «penchant» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of penchant

Translation of «penchant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PENCHANT

Find out the translation of penchant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of penchant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «penchant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

特别的喜好
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

predilección
570 millions of speakers

English

penchant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लगन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ميل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

склонность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

queda
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঝোঁক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

faible
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kegemaran
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vorliebe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

好み
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

~에 대한 선호
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Penchant
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thiên hướng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நாட்டமும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आवड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

eğilim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

debole
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

upodobanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

схильність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

înclinație
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τάση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

voorliefde
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

förkärlek
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forkjærlighet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of penchant

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PENCHANT»

The term «penchant» is quite widely used and occupies the 35.796 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PENCHANT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «penchant» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «penchant» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about penchant

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7 QUOTES WITH «PENCHANT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word penchant.
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Susan Cheever
A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.
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Alan Dundes
Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past.
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Richard Paul Evans
I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.
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Stephen Lang
I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.
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Suzy Menkes
Minimalism? It is something I appreciate as an art form but leave to others - unless you count a collection of warhorse-workwear Yves Saint Laurent trouser suits. Maybe my penchant for hippie-deluxe eccentricity came from an escapist dream of a different world. It was tough being a working mom in the 1970s.
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Ted Naifeh
The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
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Nolan North
I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PENCHANT»

Discover the use of penchant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to penchant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Penchant for Prejudice: Unraveling Bias in Judicial ...
Challenges the meaning of impartiality in the judicial system
Linda G. Mills, 1999
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The Penchant for the Primitive: Archaeology, Ethnography, ...
This dissertation examines how the various factions of Russian modernism understood and employed the category of the "primitive" from roughly 1890-1930.
Michael Mitsuo Kunichika, 2007
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A Penchant for Love
Shefali Patel. a. penchant. For. éw. a novel. shezfali. Patel. a penchant for LOVE Shefali Patel iUniverse, Inc. New York. Front Cover.
Shefali Patel, 2006
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The Royal Phraseological English-French, French-English ...
L'uc fortune penchante, a l'alling, totterlng fortune. PENCHANT. s. a. Sur le penchant d'une colline, on the declivity—slan—ol' a bill. (Fig.) Il est sur le penchant de sa ruine. he is on the Verge ot' min. Sa jbrtune est sur son penchant. hil good ...
John Charles Tarver, 1867
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Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong: Why We Love France ...
(chapter. 9). The. Penchant. for. Absolutism. We witnessed a strange billboard campaign during our first winter in Paris. The walls of every subway station were plastered with two huge black-and- white pictures, one of an army officer in his ...
Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie Barlow, 2003
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The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the ...
This penchant for self-criticism largely emanated from the political left, which was responding to Britain's fall from great-power status. Believing that Btitain needed to abandon its traditional separatism from, and ultimately link its fate to, the ...
Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, 2005
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Nahum:
Concernant la notion de ces logismoi il est généralement admis qu'elle est l' équivalente du mauvais penchant rabbinique, ainsi J. Daniélou: «Origène reprend ici (il s'agit de Prin III, 2) la théorie du yêsér /гага, qu'il traduit par ттоугфос ...
Lorenzo Perrone, 2003
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The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney
Cheney's. Penchant. for. secrecy. Where's. dick?” was the most frequently asked question across thecountry in the weeks after september 11, 2001. Cheney wasn' t home behind the high wrought-iron fence of number one observatory Circle, ...
Shirley Anne Warshaw, 2009
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Smoke and Mirrors: Making the Transformation to Nonsmoker a ...
Since childhood I've a penchant for being either very good or very bad. When I penchant for being either very good or very bad. When I penchant for being either very good or very bad. When I penchant for being either very good or very bad.
Cynthia Thorson, 2005
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Cities in Transition: Growth, Change and Governance in Six ...
4. Toronto. A. penchant. for. Metro. reform. Toronto provides a unique example of the ways in which a provincial government responded to urban change, fiscal concerns and political uncertainty by focusing on metropolitan reform. It is a city ...
Nirmala Rao, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PENCHANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term penchant is used in the context of the following news items.
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The Baseball Hall Of Fame's Class Of 2015 Shines With An …
... Cy Young Awards and 735 career victories as well as a member of the 3,000 hit club whose penchant for doubles was turned into an art form. «Forbes, Jul 15»
2
In the 1980s we failed the young. We still do
That very word “penchant”! Frenchified, suavely mandarin, itself a period piece from the age of Sir Humphrey Appleby. But still more startling ... «The Times, Jul 15»
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Inside Out review – an emotional rollercoaster
... 2 and Monsters University and 2012's well-intentioned but forgettable Brave, it seemed as if the studio had lost its penchant for exotic risk. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Ellison says Trump can win GOP nod, points to Minn. electing …
... is sizable in number and consumed with the bombastic New Yorker's penchant for dropping verbal bombs regarding immigrants from Mexico ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
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First Draft | Strong Showings for Donald Trump in Iowa and New …
Mr. Trump — the New York real estate tycoon and reality television host turned 2016 Republican presidential hopeful with a penchant for ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Ad-blockers – blessing or curse for the free internet?
One of the nice things about being married to an American – apart from the penchant for substantial cooked breakfasts and alt-country music ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
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Lalu fasts for caste census data release, calls Modi 'Kaliya Naag'
Lalu, known for his penchant for the dramatic, arrived at the fast venue at Gandhi Maidan on a tonga, horse drawn carriages that are being ... «IBNLive, Jul 15»
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Westminster paedophile scandal casts shadows over British …
Among them was a November 1986 note from the director-general of MI5 to the cabinet secretary, referring to an MP with "a penchant for small ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
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Three for the Money: Carly, Walker, and Cruz
Carly Fiorina, however, with her penchant for the main shot, did not ignore the issue. In interviews with CNN's Jack Tapper and Fox and Friends ... «American Thinker, Jul 15»
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Why does it seem Dr Phillips is in election mode?
The myriad revelations of abuse and misuse of State resources in recent years testify to the duplicitous penchant of the Government. This Portia ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»

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