Favourite - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a special loved one (syn: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, pet)
- something regarded with special favor or liking (syn: favorite)
adjective
- preferred above all others and treated with partiality (syn: favored, favorite, pet, preferred)
Extra examples
All the favourites were out of the race early.
What's your favourite colour?
Can we have strawberries? They're my favourite.
Dahl's books are firm favourites with children.
You always were Dad's favourite.
The manager insisted he doesn't play favorites.
Italy were the favourites to win the World Cup.
He was the hot favourite for the Booker Prize.
Father always brings the conversation round to his favourite subject.
Let's go to the football game and cheer for our favourite team.
The favourite drew out and won by two lengths.
As our favourite restaurant was closed, we had to go elsewhere.
Father has ensconced himself in his favourite corner as usual.
Rudolf felt deeply the tragical loss of his favourite son.
This place was one of her favourite funk-holes.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: favourite
he/she/it: favourites
present participle: favouriting
past tense: favourited
past participle: favourited
singular: favourite
plural: favourites
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