fave

See also: fåve

English

Alternative forms

• fav

Etymology

From favorite or favourite, by shortening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /feɪv/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪv

Adjective

fave

1. (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK).
   • 2010 September, St. Louis magazine, volume 16, number 9, →ISSN, page 8:

     At stlmag.com this month
     Select articles from this issue
     An editors' podcast
     A Google Map of our Best Dressed winners' fave shops

   • 2020 September 27, Christy Stratton & Jeremy Rowley, “Violet's Secret” (: from the start), in Bless the Harts‎, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Jenny Hart (Kristen Wiig):

     “She's entered the privacy phase. The rebellion has started, Jenny. Violet is lost to us!” “Oh, don't be so dramatic. She's still our little girl. Watch this. Vi, 90-Day Beyoncé is coming on. Fave garbage-y reality show. Want to watch ironically... while I watch unironically?” “Nope, bye.” “See?”

Derived terms

• favelet

Translations

favorite (informal)

Finnish: lemppari (fi) Turkish: seçilmis

Noun

fave (plural faves)

1. (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK)

Verb

fave (third-person singular simple present faves, present participle faving, simple past and past participle faved)

1. (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK)

Antonyms

• unfave

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin faba.

Noun

fave f (plural favis)

1. broad bean

Related terms

• favâl

Italian

Noun

fave f

1. plural of fava

Latin

Verb

favē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of faveō

References

• "fave", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)