favourite

«favourite» in Mova's school dictionary: the thing or person you like best of all — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (favourite); noun (a favourite, favourites)

meaning for a pupil

1) Your favourite is the thing or person you like best of all. tree →

2) Favourite as an adjective means liked the most, like your favourite colour or food. tree →

3) In a race or contest, the favourite is the one expected to win. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday conversation, children talk about their favourite food, book, animal, game and colour, which is a good way to make friends. In maths, a tally chart or bar chart of «our class's favourite fruit» is a classic survey; the favourite is the bar that is tallest (the mode). In fairness lessons, teachers should not have favourites. Phrases: my favourite, all-time favourite, an old favourite, play favourites.

examples

• What's your favourite colour? tree →
• Pizza is my favourite food. tree →
• This book is an old favourite. tree →
• Our survey showed apples are the class's favourite fruit. tree →
• Which animal is your favourite? tree →
• She's the favourite to win the race. tree →
• It's not fair for teachers to have favourites. tree →
• That song is my all-time favourite. tree →
• Her favourite flowers were the dittany, poppy, and lily. tree →

note

British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian spelling: favourite; American spelling: favorite. «Favourite» already means «most liked», so «most favourite» is not needed. In survey problems, the favourite is the answer with the biggest number.

In the corpora

• Rewatching a favourite film is a comfort at any age; grown-ups do it too.
• A bad picture fades faster if you fill your head with something else, like a favourite place, a game or a song.
• Sea otters smash shellfish on a stone laid on the chest and keep a favourite stone in a loose skin pocket under the arm.
• "chuān duō diǎnr" means "wear more layers!", the favourite advice of grandparents, even in spring.
• Poets paint pictures with words, and they have a few favourite tricks: the simile, the metaphor, personification and alliteration.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «favourite» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.