favorites
UK spellingfavourites
- 1Plural of favorite.
Among all the desserts on the menu, the lemon tart and the cheesecake remain customer favorites.
He listed his favorites in order, starting with the oldest films he had seen.
Note
A regular plural, formed with a plain -s on the spelling that American usage treats as standard. Outside the US, the usual form is favourites, with the u. Because favorite is also a verb, the same letters can be a present-tense verb form. The adjective never takes -s, so in a phrase like customer favorites the word is always working as a noun.
favorites is a form of favorite
favorite, noun: A person or thing that someone likes more than others, or that is especially popular, such as a song, a dish or a performer. Full entry
- Forms
- favoritefavorites plural
- Spelling
- favorite → favorites: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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