Word Finder - favorite

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A person or thing who enjoys special regard or favour.

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The teacher's favourite always went first.

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A person who is preferred or trusted above all others.

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A contestant or competitor thought most likely to win.

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She's the favourite, she'll probably be elected.

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• top dog

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A bookmark in a web browser.

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(in the plural) A short curl dangling over the temples, fashionable in the reign of Charles II.

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To favour.

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To bookmark.

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To add to one's list of favourite items on a website that allows users to compile such lists.

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Preferred or liked above all others (unless qualified).

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This is my second favourite occupation.

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Belonging to a category whose members are all preferred or liked over nonmembers.

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I just saw a movie with all my favourite actors in it.

She's my favorite character.

Riding horses was one of her favorite pastimes, and the country out that way was gorgeous - winter or summer.

He was, in fact, making this soup, his favorite dish.

If I could draw, you would be my favorite subject.

It was an Appaloosa - her favorite breed.

This is currently my favorite red car.

My favorite color is green.

It was one of her favorite artists, Andy Gordon.

After tea, Nicholas, Sonya, and Natasha went to the sitting room, to their favorite corner where their most intimate talks always began.

Jackson was thrilled at the thought of spending a decade or so at his favorite home, claiming North America to be fresh and new.

He made me sit in his armchair, while he brought different interesting things for me to examine, and at his request I recited "The Chambered Nautilus," which was then my favorite poem.

It reminded her of one of her favorite space empire-building games, Homeworld.

When she did venture forth from her digs, a favorite pastime was exploring the cyber world with Fred and his computer.

Do you have a favorite kind?

She unraveled herself from her favorite chair near the window.

I don't think Claire is one of Donnie's favorite people.

Princess Mary had two passions and consequently two joys--her nephew, little Nicholas, and religion--and these were the favorite subjects of the prince's attacks and ridicule.

Jack crossed to what had been his favorite spot on the couch.

Uncle Pat Clancy asked around Pop's favorite bars, but no one knew for sure—or really cared much.

His trench and shirt were shredded and his favorite sword shattered, along with the majority of his other weapons.

Dave's favorite hobby has always been riding motor cycles.

Even if she could explain, he wouldn't understand the gnawing fear that drove her from their favorite spot.

He had taken her favorite picture of her parents to an artist and had a painting made that matched the one of his parents.

It didn't take long to clean up after two people, and then it was time to do the chores? her favorite job.

But I thought the window seat was your favorite place.

Both are highly valued for the sake of the shell, which has always been a favorite material for ladies combs and hairpins.

At the age of seventy, after a reign of forty-two years, Abbas died at his favorite palace of Farahabad, on the coast of Mazandaran, on the night of the 27th of January 1628.

The defection of his favorite son John gave Henry his deathblow, and Philip Augustus found himself confronted by a new Phil!

Use a favorite nursery rhyme to give your baby shower a fun theme.

In the 18th century, they sent heavily armed naval warships to the pirates ' favorite hunting grounds.

If you have a favorite watering hole I have missed, please me and I will be pleased to add it to the list.

A favorite blanket or toy can work wonders.

A parents' favorite item, a rocking chair with an ottoman makes its way into many baby nurseries.

The specialties here offer combos of your favorite types of beef matched with seafood cuisine.

The one here in Montana has always been my favorite.

Fred waved back to Mrs. Blanding, who was waiting anxiously for her favorite helper.

The most expensive one was her favorite, but she selected the least expensive.

Yet another and very favorite method, giving beautiful results, is to model the design on both faces of the metal so as to give a sculpture in the round.

It is not to be inferred, however, though it is a favorite assertion of collectors, that no good netsuke have been made in modern times.

The soft silk known as habutaye is a favorite ground for such work, but silk crape also is largely employed.

Banko faience is a universal favorite with foreign collectors.

The weapons are the spat ha, or double-bladed German sword, the sax (a short sword, or long knife, semispathium), the knife, shield, and the favorite German axe, though this latter is not found in Bavaria.

Above Cairo the Nile is the favorite tourist route, while between Sheila!

The bath is a favorite resort of both sexes and all classes.

Notwithstanding its condemnation by Mahomet, music is the most favorite recreation of the people; the songs of the boatmen, the religious chants, and the cries in the streets are all musical.

In later times the theory of Ennead became very popular and was adopted by most of local priesthoods, who substituted their own favorite god Re, sometimes retaining and sometimes changing the names he other eight deities.

A favorite way of indicating the eyes was by drilling two holes and inserting a white shell bead n each.

A favorite decoration was by lines of white clay slip, in crossing patterns, figures of animals, and, rarely, men.

Kheti or Achthos was apparently Hera cleo- a favorite name with the kings, but they are very period, obscure.

The incidents of this episode were a favorite subject in the sculptures of his temples, where their representation was accompanied by a poetical version of the affair and other explanatory inscriptions.