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fave

/feɪv/

fave adjective: favorite (US) or favourite (UK).

Adjective

fave

  1. (informal) Favorite (US) or favourite (UK).
    • At stlmag.com this month
      Select articles from this issue
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      A Google Map of our Best Dressed winners' fave shops2010 September, St. Louis magazine, volume 16, number 9, →ISSN, page 8
    • “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?”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)

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)

fave meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Nepali

fave in Tamil

விருப்பமானது, மனதிற்குப் பிடித்தது, இஷ்டப்பட்டது, விருப்பமான, மனதிற்குப் பிடித்த, இஷ்டப்பட்ட

fave in Kannada

ಫೇವ್

fave in Nepali

फेभ, फेभ गर्न

Examples of fave in a sentence

  • Cards is my fave game, above any board game.
  • After tearing his fave T-shirt unintentionally, my brother wreaked revenge on me by ripping my most prized blazer apart.
  • My fave diaper design that doesn't exist is a diaper corset.

All 14 example sentences with fave

Antonyms of fave

Forms of fave

Adjective
alternative formfav
Noun
pluralfaves
Verb
third-person singular presentfaves
present participlefaving
past participlefaved
pastfaved

Origin of fave

From favorite or favourite, by shortening.

Words formed from fave

Words that rhyme with fave

29 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about fave

What does fave mean?
Fave means favorite (US) or favourite (UK).
What is fave in Tamil?
Fave in Tamil is விருப்பமானது, மனதிற்குப் பிடித்தது, இஷ்டப்பட்டது. See Fave meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fave?
Fave can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce fave?
Fave is pronounced /feɪv/.

Words near fave in the dictionary

  1. fava beans
  2. favaginous
  3. favas
  4. Favazza
  5. Favazzas
  6. fave
  7. faved
  8. favel
  9. favela
  10. favelas
  11. favelet

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fave (page history and authors); fave (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fave (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fave (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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