fave

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/feɪv/

adjective

Favorite (US) or favourite (UK).

Opposite
CommonScrabble 10

Meanings

adjective

alternative fav

  1. 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 8
    1 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)
nounfave (plural faves)

plural faves · alternative fav

  1. informalFavorite (US) or favourite (UK)
verbfave (third-person singular simple present faves, present participle faving, simple past and past participle faved)

present singular third person faves · participle present faving · participle past faved · past faved · alternative fav

  1. informalFavorite (US) or favourite (UK)

Synonyms & antonyms

Opposite

Origin

Translations

Finnish lemppari
  • lempparifavorite (informal)
Turkish seçilmis
  • seçilmisfavorite (informal)

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with fave

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Cite this entry
APA

fave. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fave

MLA

“fave.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fave. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fave,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fave.

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