favorite

comparative more favorite · superlative most favorite · alternative archaic poetic fav'rite

1. USstandardUS standard spelling of favourite.

   Mom made her favorite oatmeal no-bakes and Rice Krispies treats. The good thing about being sick was she could eat anything she wanted.

   2003, Kristen Heitzmann, The Still of Night, page 84

plural favorites · alternative archaic poetic fav'rite

1. USstandardUS standard spelling of favourite.

   Has direct links to update good and bad lists, customized favorites with childsafe sites, easy installation from one CD.

   1998, Barry Leonard, Cyber Risk '97: Conference Proceedings

present singular third person favorites · participle present favoriting · participle past favorited · past favorited · alternative archaic poetic fav'rite

1. USstandardUS standard spelling of favourite.

   On Twitter, Eric Trump, one of the president’s sons, favorited a tweet, which was later deleted, that referred to Ms. Harris as a “whorendous pick.”

   2020 August 12, Annie Karni, Jeremy W. Peters, “Her Voice? Her Name? G.O.P.’s Raw Personal Attacks on Kamala Harris”, in The New York Times

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   While I myself have no problems as far as favoriting instead of commenting is concerned, since a lot of deviants are like this, I thought it was right to tell people how to comment correctly.

   2009, Grekkikay, post on how to critique art; quoted in Linda Vigdor, “Constructing Learning through the Creative Evaluation of Visual Arts Production”, in Hiesun Cecilia Suhr, editor, Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture), New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, 2015, section “Creative Evaluation as Practiced in Three Critique Environments”, exhibit 2 (DeviantArt.com), pages 87–88

plural Favorites

1. A surname.