for

Meanings

Conj

Because.

Prep

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.
Despite, in spite of.
Indicating something desired or anticipated.
Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence .
In honor of; after.
Due for or facing (a certain outcome or fate).
Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio
Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen.
Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
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.

Particle

To, the particle for marking the following verb as an infinitive.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English for, from Old English for (“for, because of”), from Proto-Germanic *furi (“for”), from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-.
Cognate with West Frisian foar (“for”), Dutch voor (“for”), German für (“for”), Danish for (“for”), Swedish för (“for”), Norwegian for (“for”), Icelandic fyrir (“for”), Latin per (“by, through, for, by means of”) and Romance language descendants (e.g. Spanish para (“for”)), Ancient Greek περί (perí, “for, about, toward”), Lithuanian per (“by, through, during”), Slovak pre (“for”), Sanskrit परि (pári, “over, around”).

Synonyms

because, given that, seeing that

Antonyms

against

Scrabble Score: 6

for is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
for is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
for is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

for is a valid Words With Friends word