Penchant

Quick meaning: Penchant is a noun meaning Taste, liking, or inclination (for).

Meaning

Taste, liking, or inclination (for).

More Meanings

1. (card games, uncountable) A card game resembling bezique.
2. (card games) In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time.

Example Sentences

He has a penchant for fine wine.

Just like Marple, there's a plaque at the London terminus [Paddington] commemorating a fictional character - a polite, friendly little bear from darkest Peru who has a penchant for marmalade sarnies.

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.

THE LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. By O. S. Nock. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] One scarcely imagined, for example, that the great steel works at Crewe owed its existence to Sir Richard Moon's penchant for the principle of "Do it yourself", a principle born of a methodical, economical and far-seeing mind.

Word Forms

• penchants

Synonyms for penchant

Depending on context, synonyms include desire, predilection, preference, taste.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include preference, predilection, taste, affection, fondness, affinity.

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