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/fˈeɪvərɪt/ /fˈeɪvrət/ Listen

noun

Favorite n.

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."

pl. Short curls dangling over the temples; fashionable in the reign of Charles II. (Obs.)

(Sporting) The competitor (as a horse in a race) that is judged most likely to win; the competitor standing highest in the betting.

adjective

Favorite adj. Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a favorite child. "His favorite argument."

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Etymology of 'Favorite'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Favorite" Quotes from Famous Books

... for I like him, and I like his wife." Then Peter told about the little woman who hated politics and loved flowers, and about the cool, able manager of men, who could not restrain himself from putting his arms about the necks of his favorite horses, and who had told about the death of one of his mares with tears in his eyes. "He had his cheek cut open by a kick from one of his horses once, and he speaks of it just as we would speak of some unintentional ...

— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford

... fathers, in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes, flowed from the same principle; their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual, and degrade the spiritual, nature of man. It was their favorite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived forever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings. [91] The ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon

... constructed log houses, one story in heighth, with huge stone chimneys, and slept on beds of straw. Slaves were pretty tired after their long day's work in the field. Sometimes we would, unbeknown to our master, assemble in a cabin and sing songs and spirituals. Our favorite spirituals were—Bringin' in de sheaves, De Stars am shinin' for us all, Hear de Angels callin', and The Debil has no place here. The singing was usually to the accompaniment of a Jew's harp and fiddle, or banjo. In summer the slaves went without shoes ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - Maryland Narratives • Works Projects Administration

... of all the instruments acclaims the climax before the unison stroke of fullest chorus on the solemn note of the beginning. A favorite device of Bruckner, a measured tread of pizzicato strings with interspersed themal motives, precedes the romantic episode. Throughout the movement is this alternation of liturgic ...

— Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies • Philip H. Goepp

... the U.S. Military Academy in 1836 and was soon assigned to the Engineer Corps. Thereafter, for a quarter of a century his outstanding talents were devoted to many important engineering projects. His favorite was the construction of the Washington Aqueduct, which carried a large part of Washington's water supply from the Great Falls of the Potomac to the city. This work, under his direction between 1852 and 1860, involved devising ...

— Presentation Pieces in the Museum of History and Technology • Margaret Brown Klapthor

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