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# favorite

«favorite» in Mova's school dictionary: **the one you like best** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (favorite; British favourite); noun (a favorite, favorites)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Your favorite is the one you like best. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorite/#m1)

2) A favorite is a person or team that most people think will win. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorite/#m2)

3) A favorite can be someone liked more than others, which may be unfair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorite/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a story word; sometimes in surveys counting favorite fruits or colours (tally charts, bar graphs: each favorite is a label of a group counted); school: favorite book, favorite subject; everyday life: favorite food, toy or song

### examples

- Her favorite fruit is apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorite/#x1)
- 12 children said red is their favorite color. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorite/#x2)
- He bought 3 of his favorite books. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorite/#x3)
- How many chose dogs as their favorite? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorite/#x4)
- What is your favorite subject? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorite/#x5)
- We made a bar graph of favorite pets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorite/#x6)
- This song is my favorite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorite/#x7)
- The blue team is the favorite to win. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorite/#x8)
- Another favorite pastime of Kintaro’s was to smash up rocks and stones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorite/#x9)

### note

No operation clue; in surveys, it is the label of a group counted. Trap: none. US spelling «favorite», British «favourite».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «favorite» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/favorite/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.