penchant
/ˈpɒnʃɒn//ˈpɛnt͡ʃənt/
penchant noun: a taste, liking, or inclination for (something).
Noun
penchant (countable and uncountable, plural penchants)
- A taste, liking, or inclination for (something).
- He has a penchant for fine wine.
- Marie even then began the course which, in after-years, secured her so vast an influence in the court,—alternately taking up and laying down her claim to the youthful monarch's penchant; administering to his amusement, and ready to encourage his passing fancies.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 264
- A card game resembling bezique.
- In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.
penchant meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
penchant in Tamil
- தீவிர நாட்டம், ஆர்வம், ஈடுபாடு
penchant in Urdu
- پسند, رجحان
penchant in Bengali
- আসক্তি, অনুরাগ
penchant in Malayalam
- penchant
- പ്രിയം priyaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
- penchant in Kannada
- ಒಲವು, ಅಭಿರುಚಿ, ಪ್ರವೃತ್ತಿ, ಇಷ್ಟ
- penchant in Nepali
- पेन्चन्ट, पेन्चेन्ट
- penchant in Persian
- عاشق چیزی بودن, عشقِ چیزی بودن
Examples of penchant in a sentence
- The term “performative miserabilism” has been coined to explain France’s confusing penchant towards self-cynicism.
- TikTok Harries in their droves have been documenting his penchant for bags too.
- But despite his waxworks appearance, pre-Weinsteinian penchant for priapic innuendo and lingering criminal trials, Mr.
Synonyms of penchant
Forms of penchant
| plural | penchants |
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Origin of penchant
Unadapted borrowing from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang”).
Questions about penchant
- What does penchant mean?
- Penchant means a taste, liking, or inclination for (something).
- What is penchant in Tamil?
- Penchant in Tamil is தீவிர நாட்டம், ஆர்வம், ஈடுபாடு. See Penchant meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is penchant?
- Penchant is a noun.
- How do you pronounce penchant?
- Penchant is pronounced /ˈpɒnʃɒn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of penchant?
- The plural of penchant is penchants.
Words near penchant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: penchant (page history and authors); penchant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); penchant (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); penchant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പ്രിയം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); penchant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); penchant (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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