fave

• fav

From favorite or favourite, by shortening.

• IPA^(key): /feɪv/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪv

fave

1. (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK).
   • 2010 September, St. Louis magazine, volume 16, number 9, →ISSN, page 8:

     At stlmag.com this month
     Select articles from this issue
     An editors' podcast
     A Google Map of our Best Dressed winners' fave shops

   • 2020 September 27, Christy Stratton & Jeremy Rowley, “Violet's Secret” (: from the start), in Bless the Harts‎^[1], season 2, episode 1, spoken by Jenny Hart (Kristen Wiig):

     “She's entered the privacy phase. The rebellion has started, Jenny. Violet is lost to us!” “Oh, don't be so dramatic. She's still our little girl. Watch this. Vi, 90-Day Beyoncé is coming on. Fave garbage-y reality show. Want to watch ironically... while I watch unironically?” “Nope, bye.” “See?”

fave (plural faves)

1. (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK)

fave (third-person singular simple present faves, present participle faving, simple past and past participle faved)

1. (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK)

• unfave

From Latin faba.

fave f (plural favis)

1. broad bean

• favâl

fave f

1. plural of fava

favē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of faveō

• "fave", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)