English Dictionary

prefer

IPA（発音記号）

/pɹɪˈfɝ/

動詞

他動詞 古風 廃用

(transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better. / (transitive, now dated) To advance, promote (someone or something).

日本語の意味

～をより好む、選ぶ / (現代ではあまり使われない)～を昇進させる、前進させる

Many customers prefer organic products because they believe they are healthier.

多くの顧客は、それらがより健康的だと信じているため、有機製品を選ぶ傾向がある。

意味（1）

(transitive) To be in the habit of choosing something rather than something else; to favor; to like better.

I prefer tea to coffee.

意味（2）

(transitive, now dated) To advance, promote (someone or something).

So ſhall you haue a ſhorter iourney to your deſires, by the meanes I ſhall then haue to preferre them. And the impediment moſt profitably remoued, without the which there were no expectation of our proſperitie.

意味（3）

(transitive) To present or submit (something) to an authority (now usually in "to prefer charges").

[…], let him go, And preſently preferre his ſuite to Cæſar.

意味（4）

(obsolete, transitive) To put forward for acceptance; to introduce, recommend (to).

one Master David Hume, who making some use of his purse, gave him Letters to his friends in Scotland to preferre him to King Iames.

prefers （ present singular third-person ）

preferring （ participle present ）

preferred （ participle past ）

preferred （ past ）

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en-conj-simple （ inflection-template ）

prefer （ infinitive ）