favorite
/ˈfeɪv.ɹɪt/ verb C2- To favour.
- To bookmark.
- To add to one's list of favourite items on a website that allows users to compile such lists.
He/she/it favorites · Past favorited · Past participle favorited · -ing form favoriting
Verb forms
- Base form
- favorite
- He/she/it
- favorites
- Past
- favorited
- Past participle
- favorited
- -ing form
- favoriting
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He stationed himself in a room commanding a view of the street, pacing the chamber with restless steps, stopping merely to listen from time to time for the sound of approaching wheels, then to cast an anxious glance on Ali; but the regularity with which the Nubian puffed forth the smoke of his chibouque proved that he at least was wholly absorbed in the enjoyment of his favorite occupation.
At this instant the favorite attendant of Madame Danglars entered the boudoir; approaching her mistress, she spoke some words in an undertone.
Two hours afterwards, Madame Danglars received a most flattering epistle from the count, in which he entreated her to receive back her favorite “dappled grays,” protesting that he could not endure the idea of making his entry into the Parisian world of fashion with the knowledge that his splendid equipage had been obtained at the price of a lovely woman’s regrets.
Albert led him first to his atelier, which was, as we have said, his favorite apartment.
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