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penchant

[ pen-chuhnt; French pahn-shahn ]

noun

  1. a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something:

    a penchant for outdoor sports.



penchant

/ ˈpɒŋʃɒŋ /

noun

  1. a strong inclination or liking; bent or taste


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Word History and Origins

Origin of penchant1

1665–75; < French, noun use of present participle of pencher to incline, lean < Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, derivative of Latin pendēre to hang

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Word History and Origins

Origin of penchant1

C17: from French, from pencher to incline, from Latin pendēre to be suspended

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Idioms and Phrases

see have a penchant for .

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Example Sentences

Douek said that while she can only speculate as to YouTube’s motives, she suspects that its penchant for avoiding headlines is at least partly intentional.

Delaney, a 39-year-old IT consultant, already had a penchant for activism.

Unless you’re a legal expert or have a penchant for nosing through dense legal documents, across not just the EEOC but other relevant regulatory bodies, things can start to get easily tangled.

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He was traded to the Atlanta Hawks in 2015, where he struggled early but found his game — and his penchant for 3-point shooting.

They have a penchant for travel far greater than their heterosexual counterparts.

This penchant for medical internationalism goes back to the greatest icon of the revolution, Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

The CIA has a penchant for such hilarious and sometimes depraved schemes.

Reality-show deal aside, Weeks has a penchant for talking about her poverty.

Let this be a warning for rich men who have a penchant for younger women—they can be quite jealous.

Unlike his falsetto and his "cool dad" penchant for fedoras, this rumored affair is just so not cute.

Of refined tastes, including a penchant for blue china, being a thriving bachelor, he was able to gratify them.

Excellent company; a frequenter of the home of Mme. de la Baudraye, where he satisfied his penchant for gaming.

These higher flights from Tootles always moved Pansy, who had a penchant for refined romance.

My landlord had a great penchant, like other Frenchmen of that day, for conversing on the subject of duelling.

Ling Chu on the contrary had a penchant for buses and seemed to enjoy them.

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