favourite

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/ (ˈfeɪvərɪt, ˈfeɪvrɪt) /

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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 favourites to display favouritism

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Word Origin for favourite

C16: from Italian favorito, from favorire to favour, from Latin favēre

Words nearby favourite

favosite, favour, favourable, favourable pressure gradient, -favoured, favourite, favouritism, favours, Favrile Glass, favus, Fawcett

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How to use favourite in a sentence

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.
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The Black PrinceBy Iris Murdoch This is my favourite novel of all time and is structurally extremely (and successfully) ambitious.
The Most Unreliable Narrators, From Agatha Christie to Iris Murdoch|Sophie Hannah|April 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She had posed for me during the last three years, and among all my models she was my favourite.
Read ‘The King in Yellow,’ the ‘True Detective’ Reference That’s the Key to the Show|Robert W. Chambers|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Fall asleep listening to a favourite love song as if you were singing it to yourself.
The Great Valentine’s Day Hangover|Emma Woolf|February 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST

She talks to Henry C. Krempels about her favourite haunts, why the city insipires her, and new writers not to be missed.
Literary City: Taiye Selasi’s Rome|Henry Krempels|December 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
What are your favourite works of literature that are set in Rome?
Literary City: Taiye Selasi’s Rome|Henry Krempels|December 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Not suspecting her motive, he represented the hazard of putting so great an affront on the favourite of the Empress.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4|Jane Porter
Four years ago Hetton's horse had been first favourite, but it was ignominiously beaten.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Magnums of the driest and most expensive champagne seemed to be the favourite beverage.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
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.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Hagley Road, on Sunday evenings, is particularly affected by some as their favourite promenade.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell