How to pronounce “for”

Meaning

• [Conjunction]
• (formal, literary) Because.
• [Preposition]
• Towards; in the direction of.
• Directed at; intended to belong to.
• In order to help, benefit, gratify, honor etc. (someone or something).
• Befitting of someone’s beliefs, needs, wants, skills, or tastes; best suited to.
• To be used or treated in a stated way, or with a stated purpose.
• Supporting, in favour of.
• Because of.
• In order to cure, remove or counteract.
• So as to allow (something or someone) to take position.
• In anticipation of.
• So as to identify or locate.
• Over (a period of time).
• Throughout or across (a distance in space).
• Used to introduce a subject of a to-infinitive clause.
• On behalf of.
• In the role or capacity of; instead of; in place of.
• In exchange for; in correspondence or equivalence with.
• In order to obtain or acquire.
• By the standards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering.
• To be, or as being.
• (usually in the phrase 'for all') Despite, in spite of.
• Indicating something desired or anticipated.
• (in expressions such as 'for a start') Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence .
• (with names, chiefly US) In honor of; after.
• (UK) Due for or facing (a certain outcome or fate).
• (chiefly US) Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
• (cricket) Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
• (obsolete) Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
• (nonstandard) So (that), in order to
• Used in various other more-or-less idiomatic ways to construe individual verbs, indicating various semantic relationships such as target, purpose, result, etc.; see also the entries for individual phrasal verbs, e.g. ask for, look for, stand for, etc.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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