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favourite
/ ˈfeɪvrɪt; ˈfeɪvərɪt /
adjective
- prenominal most liked; preferred above all others
noun
- a person or thing regarded with especial preference or liking
- ( as modifier )
a favourite book
- sport a competitor thought likely to win
- pl computing a place on certain browsers that allows internet users to list the addresses of websites they find and like with a click of the mouse so that they can revisit them merely by opening the list and clicking on the address
- play favouritesto display favouritism
Word History and Origins
Origin of favourite1
Example Sentences
Much NLP research has switched to passages and rankingPassage retrieval and ranking has become one of the favourite areas of research over the past couple of years.
The Black PrinceBy Iris Murdoch This is my favourite novel of all time and is structurally extremely (and successfully) ambitious.
She had posed for me during the last three years, and among all my models she was my favourite.
Fall asleep listening to a favourite love song as if you were singing it to yourself.
She talks to Henry C. Krempels about her favourite haunts, why the city insipires her, and new writers not to be missed.
What are your favourite works of literature that are set in Rome?
Not suspecting her motive, he represented the hazard of putting so great an affront on the favourite of the Empress.
Four years ago Hetton's horse had been first favourite, but it was ignominiously beaten.
Magnums of the driest and most expensive champagne seemed to be the favourite beverage.
Later on, I believe, a child is wont to have his favourite colour, and to be ready to defend it against the preferences of others.
Hagley Road, on Sunday evenings, is particularly affected by some as their favourite promenade.
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