Word Meanings - FAVORER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FAVORER)

• Benefactor
• Friend
• supporter
• contributor
• upholder
• well-wisher
• favorer
• well-doer
• patron

Related words: (words related to FAVORER)

• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• PATRONIZING
  Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv. Thackeray.
• PATRONYMIC
  Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.
• PATRONIZER
  One who patronizes.
• FRIENDSHIP
  1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• PATRONAL
  Patron; protecting; favoring. Sir T. Browne.
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• FRIEND
  freón, freógan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frændi kinsman, Sw. frände. Goth. frij friend, frij to love. sq. root83. See Free, 1. One who entertains for another
• BENEFACTOR
  One who confers a benefit or benefits. Bacon.
• FAVORER
  One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.
• FRIENDING
  Friendliness. Shak.
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• PATRONATE
  The right or duty of a patron; patronage. Westm. Rev.
• PATRONIZE
  1. To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid. The idea has been patronized by two States only. A. Hamilton. 3. To assume the air of a patron, or of a superior and protector, toward; -- used in an unfavorable sense; as,
• PATRONOMAYOLOGY
  That branch of knowledge which deals with personal names and their origin; the study of patronymics.
• PATRONIZATION
  The act of patronizing; patronage; support.
• CONTRIBUTORY
  Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive. Milton. Bonfires of contributory wood. Chapman. Contributory negligence , negligence by
• CONTRIBUTOR
  One who, or that which, contributes; specifically, one who writes articles for a newspaper or magazine.
• PATRONYMICAL
  See PATRONYMIC
• UNFRIEND
  One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
• BEFRIEND
  To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. By the darkness befriended. Longfellow.
• BACKFRIEND
  A secret enemy. South.
• UNFRIENDLY
  1. Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor. 2. Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health. -- Un*friend"li*ness, n.
• ENPATRON
  To act the part of a patron towards; to patronize. Shak.
• TRANSPATRONIZE
  To transfer the patronage of. Warner.
• IMPATRONIZE
  To make lord or master; as, to impatronize one's self of a seigniory. Bacon.
• NONCONTRIBUTING; NONCONTRIBUTORY
  Not contributing.