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favourise

favourise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of favorize.

Meaning of favorize

Verb

favorize (third-person singular simple present favorizes, present participle favorizing, simple past and past participle favorized)

  1. To favor especially or unduly.

Forms of favourise

third-person singular presentfavourises
present participlefavourising
past participlefavourised
pastfavourised

Origin of favourise

From favour + -ise.

Questions about favourise

What is favourise the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Favourise is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of favorize.

Words near favourise in the dictionary

  1. favourest
  2. favoureth
  3. favouring
  4. favouringly
  5. favourings
  6. favourise
  7. favouristic
  8. favourite
  9. favourited
  10. favouritemost
  11. favourites

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: favourise (page history and authors); favorize (page history and authors). 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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