favorite
See also: Favorite
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪvɹɪt
Adjective
favorite (comparative more favorite, superlative most favorite)
- (American spelling) Alternative form of favourite.
- 2003, Kristen Heitzmann, The Still of Night, page 84:
- Mom made her favorite oatmeal no-bakes and Rice Krispies treats. The good thing about being sick was she could eat anything she wanted.
Noun
favorite (plural favorites)
- (American spelling) Alternative form of favourite.
- 1998, Barry Leonard, Cyber Risk '97: Conference Proceedings:
- Has direct links to update good and bad lists, customized favorites with childsafe sites, easy installation from one CD.
Verb
favorite (third-person singular simple present favorites, present participle favoriting, simple past and past participle favorited)
- (American spelling) Alternative form of favourite.
- 2009, Grekkikay, post on how to critique art; quoted in Linda Vigdor, “Constructing Learning through the Creative Evaluation of Visual Arts Production”, in Hiesun Cecilia Suhr, editor, Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture), New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, 2015, section “Creative Evaluation as Practiced in Three Critique Environments”, exhibit 2 (DeviantArt.com), pages 87–88:
- While I myself have no problems as far as favoriting instead of commenting is concerned, since a lot of deviants are like this, I thought it was right to tell people how to comment correctly.
- 2020 August 12, Annie Karni, Jeremy W. Peters, “Her Voice? Her Name? G.O.P.’s Raw Personal Attacks on Kamala Harris”, in The New York Times[1]:
- On Twitter, Eric Trump, one of the president’s sons, favorited a tweet, which was later deleted, that referred to Ms. Harris as a “whorendous pick.”
Derived terms
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /favorˈite/
- Rhymes: -ite
Adverb
favorite
- past adverbial passive participle of favori
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa.vɔ.ʁit/
Audio: (file)
Noun
favorite f (plural favorites)
- female equivalent of favori
Adjective
favorite
- feminine singular of favori
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /favoˈrite/
Verb
favorite
- adverbial past passive participle of favorar
Italian
Etymology 1
Adjective
favorite f pl
- feminine plural of favorito
Participle
favorite f pl
- feminine plural of favorito
Etymology 2
Noun
favorite f
- plural of favorita
Etymology 3
Verb
favorite
- inflection of favorire:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Anagrams
Norman
Adjective
favorite
- feminine singular of favori