Definition of Favorite

Favorite

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.

Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II.

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

Regarded with particular affection, esteem, or preference; as, a favorite walk; a favorite child.

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Favorite Quotations

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Steve Jobs

Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
Rodney Dangerfield

My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
Erma Bombeck

Duh! So, we're asking you now, what are some of your favorite lines that this warlock brain produced?
Charlie Sheen

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
Taylor Swift

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
Taylor Swift

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
James Madison

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.
Elvis Presley

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen King

My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust

Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds.
Joan Rivers

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis Stevenson

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.
Christopher Walken

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.
Meryl Streep

Going to the gym wouldn't be on my list of favorite things to do.
Kate Moss

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.
Steve Irwin

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.
Diane Arbus

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.
Diane Arbus

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing.
Chris Rock

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Right now, my favorite game is Resident Evil 2.
Shane West

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'
Demetri Martin

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
Frank Zappa

I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'.
Morgan Freeman

White is actually one of my favorite colors. I have a white car. I love white.
Kim Kardashian

Don't have a favorite subject, I think I want to carry on doing this because I really enjoy it.
Rupert Grint

Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like we've both got red hair, we both like sweets, we've both got lots of brothers and sisters.
Rupert Grint

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Favorite Translations

favorite in Dutch is uitverkoren
favorite in French is favori
favorite in German is favorisieren, Favorit
favorite in Portuguese is favorito
favorite in Swedish is favorit

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