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 [fey-ver-it, feyv-rit]   Origin

fa·vor·ite

   [fey-ver-it, feyv-rit]
noun
1.
a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
2.
Sports. a competitor considered likely to win.
3.
a person or thing popular with the public.
4.
a person treated with special or undue favor by a king, official, etc.: favorites at the court.
adjective
5.
regarded with particular favor or preference: a favorite child.

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Origin:
1575–85; < Middle French < Italian favorito, past participle of favorire to favor. See favor, -ite2

Related forms
non·fa·vor·ite, noun
pre·fa·vor·ite, noun, adjective
un·fa·vor·ite, adjective
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favourite or (US) favorite (ˈfeɪvərɪt, ˈfeɪvrɪt, ˈfeɪvərɪt, ˈfeɪvrɪt)
 
—adj
1.  (prenominal) most liked; preferred above all others
 
—n
2.  a.  a person or thing regarded with especial preference or liking
 b.  (as modifier): a favourite book
3.  sport a competitor thought likely to win
4.  (pl) computing a place on certain browsers that allows internet users to list the addresses of websites they find and like with a click of the mouse so that they can revisit them merely by opening the list and clicking on the address
5.  play favourites to display favouritism
 
[C16: from Italian favorito, from favorire to favour, from Latin favēre]
 
favorite or (US) favorite
 
—adj
 
—n
 
[C16: from Italian favorito, from favorire to favour, from Latin favēre]

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favorite
1580s, from M.Fr., from O.Fr. favorit, variant of favori, pp. of favorir "to favor." In racing, attested from 1813.
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