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Meanings of favourite son in inglés

Favorite son.

Usage of favourite son in inglés
1
Hundreds of Krakovians went there to pray for the city's favourite son.
The Irish Times
2
Robert displayed a quiet, scholarly disposition and was his father's favourite son.
The Irish Times
3
The favourite son of the Kaiser is presumed to be Prince Eitel Friedrich.
Face to Face with Kaiserism
4
Garuda gave him his favourite son, a peacock of beautiful feathers.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
5
It was a time when their favourite son was a man named Rock.
The Irish Times
6
A good old man: Mahomet's Father, Abdallah, had been his youngest favourite son.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in...
7
Was not Jacob's favourite son also taken into Egypt just like this child?
I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
8
The grand farewell to Irish rugby's favourite son has reached its day of days.
The Irish Times
9
Palace insiders say Edward, long regarded as the Queen's favourite son, would be delighted.
The Guardian
10
The second was the archdeacon's favourite son, and Henry was indeed a brilliant boy.
The Warden
11
But my mother, whose favourite son I was, lifted up her voice and wept.
The Wanderer's Necklace
12
Their chief force, outside Omdurman, is at Metemmeh under Mahmud, the Khalifa's favourite son.
With Kitchener in the Soudan: A Story of Atbara and Omdurman
13
In his youth, Richard Boyce had been the younger and favourite son of his father.
Marcella
14
And every night some favourite son almost gets it.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me
15
And the State had loved him back, like a favourite son, rewarding and empowering him.
Agent 6
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Robert was both scholarly and his father's favourite son.
The Irish Times
This collocation consists of:
Favourite son through the time
Favourite son across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Less common