Meanings
alternative fav
- informalFavorite (US) or favourite (UK).
At stlmag.com this month Select articles from this issue An editors' podcast A Google Map of our Best Dressed winners' fave shops
2010 September, St. Louis magazine, volume 16, number 9, →ISSN, page 81 more example
“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?”
2020 September 27, Christy Stratton & Jeremy Rowley, “Violet's Secret” (: from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Jenny Hart (Kristen Wiig)
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
From favorite or favourite, by shortening.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish lemppari
- lempparifavorite (informal)
Turkish seçilmis
- seçilmisfavorite (informal)
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with fave
Cite this entry
fave. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fave
“fave.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fave. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fave,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fave.
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