Something regarded with special favor or liking:
— That book is one of my favorites.

synoniem: favourite.

A special loved one.

synoniemen: darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favourite, pet.

Roget 897: love; fondness etc. adj.; liking; inclination etc. (desire) 865; regard, dilection^†, admiration, fancy.    affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling; tenderness etc. adj.; heart, brotherly love; benevolence etc. 906; attachment.    yearning, eros, tender passion, amour; gyneolatry^†; gallantry, passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture, enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry.    Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover's knot; love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story; the, old story, plighted love; courtship etc. 902; amourette^†; free love.    maternal love, storge [Gr.], parental love; young love, puppy love.    attractiveness; popularity; favorite etc. 899.    lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret^†, beau, sweetheart, inamorato [It], swain, young man, flame, love, truelove; leman^†, Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso^†, cavaliere servente [It], captive, cicisbeo^†; caro sposo [It].    inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling, duck, Dulcinea, angel, goddess, cara sposa [It].    betrothed, affianced, fiancee.    flirt, coquette; amorette^†; pair of turtledoves; abode of love, agapemone^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 899: favorite, pet, cosset, minion, idol, jewel, spoiled child, enfant gat_e [Fr.]; led captain; crony; fondling; apple of one's eye, man after one's own heart; persona grata.    love, [person who is a favorite (terms of address)], dear, darling, duck, duckey, honey, sugar, jewel; mopsey^†, moppet, princess; sweetheart, sweetie etc. (love) 897.    teacher's pet.    general favorite, universal favorite; idol of the people.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: favoriet, liefje, lieveling, scheet, snoes, troetelkind, uitverkorene, vlam

A competitor thought likely to win.

synoniemen: favourite, front-runner.

Nederlands: favoriet
Pools: faworyt

Appealing to the general public:
— A favorite tourist attraction.

synoniem: favourite.

Roget 829: causing pleasure etc. v.; laetificant^†; pleasure-giving, pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable; agreeable; grateful, gratifying; leef^†, lief, acceptable; welcome, welcome as the roses in May; welcomed; favorite; to one's taste, to one's mind, to one's liking; satisfactory etc. (good) 648.    refreshing; comfortable; cordial; genial; glad, gladsome; sweet, delectable, nice, dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious etc. 396; palatable etc. 394; luxurious, voluptuous; sensual etc. 377.    [of people] attractive etc. 615; inviting, prepossessing, engaging; winning, winsome; taking, fascinating, captivating, killing; seducing, seductive; heart-robbing, alluring, enticing; appetizing etc. (exciting) 824; cheering etc. 836; bewitching; enchanting, entrancing, enravishing^†.    charming; delightful, felicitous, exquisite; lovely etc. (beautiful) 845; ravishing, rapturous; heartfelt, thrilling, ecstatic; beatic^†; beatific; seraphic; empyrean; elysian etc. (heavenly) 981.    palmy, halcyon, Saturnian.    ... meer laten zien

Pools: ukochany, ulubiony

Preferred above all others and treated with partiality.

synoniemen: best-loved, favored, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred.

Roget 897: loving etc. v.; fond of; taken with, struck with; smitten, bitten; attached to, wedded to; enamored; charmed etc. v.; in love; love-sick; over head and ears in love, head over heels in love.    affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving; amorous, amatory; fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous, devoted, motherly.    loved etc. v.. beloved well beloved, dearly beloved; dear, precious, darling, pet, little; favorite, popular.    congenial; after one's mind, after one's taste, after one's fancy, after one's own heart, to one's mind, to one's taste, to one's fancy, to one's own heart.    in one's good graces etc. (friendly) 888; dear as the apple of one's eye, nearest to one's heart.    lovable, adorable; lovely, sweet; attractive, seductive, winning; charming, engaging, interesting, enchanting, captivating, fascinating, bewitching; amiable, like an angel.    ... meer laten zien