Definition of for

What does the word for mean?

• part of speech: noun

  (for, fo-r, fer, according to position or emphasis required), prep. & conj. 1. Prep. Representing, in place of, in exchange against, as price or penalty of, in requital of, (sits f., member f., Liverpool; once f. all, instead of many repetitions, finally; substituted f.; agent f.; got it f. 2d.; thrashed f. his pains); in defence or support or favour of, on side of, (take my word f. it, be assured; hurrah f. person or thing; am f. tariff-reform); with a view to, in order to be, conducive (ly) to, (go f. a walk; went f. a soldier; is, did it, f. her good; f. sale, to be sold); to get, win, or save (send, go, f. a cab; would not do it f. the world; not paid f.; play f. penny points; was tried f. his life; cannot do it f. the life of me; run f. IT); to reach, arrive at, be received by, or belong to (left, sailed, f. India; made f. shelter; go f. slang, attack; getting on f. two o\'clock; bought gowns f. the maids; won a name f. himself); (after vbs, adjj., nn., & interjections, of emotion, faculty, or fitness; after adjj. & advv. with too, enough; after expressions implying fitness &c.) as regards, in the direction of, (don\'t care f. games; a longing f. praise; fit f. nothing; ready f. dinner; oh f. wings!; now f. it!; too beautiful f. words; good enough f. me; time f. school; is not long f. this world, will soon die; nothing f. it but to submit, submission the only course, open; is the man f. the job; it is f. you to make the move; the motive f. retreating); with the result, at the cost, to the amount, of (all out for 44; 150 f. 6 wickets; drew on him f. £100); to affect, as affecting, beneficially or the reverse (they live f. each other; can shift f. myself; things look bad f. you; it is bad f. him to smoke; & hence f. with noun or pron. & infin. as neutral noun-phrase =Latin acc. & inf., it is wicked f. him to smoke, it is usual f. hats to be worn =that hats should be worn); in the character of, as, as being, (hold it f. certain; mistaken f. him; be hanged f. a pirate; take f. granted; If. one do not believe it; did it f. the second time; f. GOOD); by reason, under influence, because, on account, of (did it f. pure wantonness; avoid it f. fear of accidents; I tremble f. him; notorious f. parsimony; do it f. my sake; fie f. shame!; alas f. him!); in spite of (f. all that, f. all you say, f. all he seems to dislike me, I still like him); on account of the hindrance of (were it not, but, except, f. one thing I might be happy); corresponding to, in contrast with, (f. one enemy he has a hundred friends; bulk f. bulk, taking equal bulk of each; word f. word, literally, verbatim); so far as concerns, regarding, (f. the rest; f. my part; f. all, aught, I know; hard up f. money; wants f. nothing); considering, making the allowance required by, the usual nature of (a humaneman f. an executioner; very bright f. a winter day); during, over, to the extent of, (has been so f. months; walk f. two miles; made comfortable f. life, f. the present; left him alone f. once); f. all the world, exactly (looked f. a. t. w. like a porpoise). 2. Conj. (introducing new sentence or series of sentences containing proof of or reason for believing what has been previously stated) seeing that, since, in order to be convinced of this observe or remember that. . .