Crossword clues for favorite
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Favorite \Fa"vor*ite\, a.
Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference;
as, a favorite walk; a favorite child. ``His favorite
argument.''
--Macaulay.
Favorite \Fa"vor*ite\, n. [OF. favorit favored, F. favori, fem. favorite, p. p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to favor. See Favor.]
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A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and enriched with favors by a person of high rank or authority.
Committing to a wicked favorite All public cares.
--Milton. pl. Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. [Obs.]
--Farquhar.(Sporting) The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"person or thing regarded with especial liking," 1580s, from Middle French favorit, perhaps via Italian favorito, noun use of past participle of favorire, from favore, from Latin favorem "inclination, partiality, support" (see favor (n.)).\n
\nEspecially, "a person who gains dominant influence over a superior" (1590s). In racing, attested from 1813. As an adjective, by 1711. Favorite son in figurative use is from 1788. As a corresponding noun, "person who promotes the interests of another," Latin had fautor, hence Old French fauteur, Middle English fautour (early 14c.), but it has perished along with its fem. form fautress.
Wiktionary
preferred. n. 1 Preferred one, one with special favor 2 Expected or most probable to win. v
1 (alternative form of favor English) 2 (context Internet English) To bookmark. 3 (context Internet English) To add to one's list of favorites on a website that allows users to compile such lists.
WordNet
adj. appealing to the general public; "a favorite tourist attraction" [syn: favourite]
preferred above all others and treated with partiality; "the favored child" [syn: favored, favorite(a), favourite(a), pet, preferred]
n. something regarded with special favor or liking; "that book is one of my favorites" [syn: favourite]
a special loved one [syn: darling, favourite, pet, dearie, deary, ducky]
a competitor thought likely to win [syn: front-runner, favourite]
Wikipedia
A favourite or favorite is the intimate companion of a ruler or other important person.
Favorite or favourite may also refer to:
- Favorite (Q195), an Aurore-class submarine of the French navy
- Favorite (rapper) (born 1986), German rapper
- Favorite (steamboat), which operated in Oregon, United States, in the early 20th century
- HMS Favourite or Favorite, ships of the Royal Navy
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, a tugboat of the U.S. Navy
- Schloss Favorite, Ludwigsburg, a château in Ludwigsburg
- Favorite (album), by Jolin Tsai
- The Favorite, a 1989 American film
- La favorite, a French opera by Donizetti
- Internet bookmark or favorite
- In sports betting, the horse, team or person etc. thought most likely to win
''' Christoph Alex ''' (born 1986), better known as Favorite, is a German rapper and songwriter. In 2011 his album Christoph Alex peaked at number 4 in the German charts.
Favorite is the forth remix album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai , released on November 3, 2006 by Sony BMG Taiwan. The album contains a series of remixes of her songs, which were released by Sony, from 2003 to 2006. The track, "I Am Still Your Lover", is the cover of Chinese singer Coco Lee. The track, "Cutting Love", is the cover of Taiwanese singer A-mei.
Usage examples of "favorite".
In high school, one of my all-time favorite pranks was gaining unauthorized access to the telephone switch and changing the class of service of a fellow phone phreak.
She might have struck her skin alight, her favorite trick spell, but she was too addled and exhausted.
By his secrecy and diligence he entertained some hopes of surprising the person of Constans, who was pursuing in the adjacent forest his favorite amusement of hunting, or perhaps some pleasures of a more private and criminal nature.
Our favorite mode of administering both veratrum and aconite is to add ten drops of the tincture to ten or fifteen teaspoonfuls of water, of which one teaspoonful may be administered every hour.
My favorites are the little green and brown pea, lentil, and adzuki sprouts.
They had sat on the sofa in front of the fire, talking quietly of many things while he sipped an after-dinner brandy, his favorite.
Sage 5 ts Liquid hickory smoke Andouille was a great favorite in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
The once favorite monologues, pure, meaningless exercises of articulation, of voice and of hearing, are, on the contrary, falling off.
But he not only authoritatively assumes the truth of a future life: he speaks directly of it in many ways, often returns to it, continually hovers about it, reasons for it, exhorts upon it, makes most of his instructions hinge upon it, shows that it is a favorite subject of his communion.
Had not a momentary impulse tempted me to sing my favorite ditty to the harpsichord, to beguile the short interval, during which my hostess was conversing with her visitor in the next apartment, I should have speeded to New-York, have embarked for Europe, and been eternally severed from my friend, whom I believed to have died in phrenzy and beggary, but who was alive and affluent, and who sought me with a diligence, scarcely inferior to my own.
The two favorite studies of my youth were botany and mineralogy, and subsequently, when I learned that the use of simples frequently explained the whole history of a people, and the entire life of individuals in the East, as flowers betoken and symbolize a love affair, I have regretted that I was not a man, that I might have been a Flamel, a Fontana, or a Cabanis.
It was in vain that Biche, his favorite hound, raised herself up and drew near to him.
Only in Tokyo could the jam-packed bizarrerie of a byway like Takeshita-dori exist side by side with the elegant teahouses and antiques shops of Brahms-no-komichi, and the stark contrast is one of the reasons Harajuku has always been one of my favorite parts of the city.
In this, the multitalented Clarinda Calliope played the role of Florence Nightingale, of Ekmek Kaya, a Turkish lady of doubtful virtue who was the number-four wife and current favorite of the Turkish admiral, of Chiara Maldonado, a young lady camp follower with the army of Savoy, of Katya Petrova, who was a Russian princess as well as a triple spy, and of Claudette Boud in, a French lady journalist.
Because we want our children to be consumers, and because we want our food shopping to go smoothly, we tend to indulge children in supermarkets, buying some of their favorite products or rewarding them for good behavior with a purchase or two.