flavour

[ fley-ver ]

noun

, Chiefly British.

1. flavor.

flavour

/ ˈfleɪvə /

noun

1. taste perceived in food or liquid in the mouth
2. a substance added to food, etc, to impart a specific taste
3. a distinctive quality or atmosphere; suggestion

   a poem with a Shakespearean flavour

4. a type or variety

   various flavours of graphical interface

5. physics a property of quarks that enables them to be differentiated into six types: up, down, strange, charm, bottom (or beauty), and top (or truth)
6. flavour of the month
   a person or thing that is the most popular at a certain time

verb

1. tr to impart a flavour, taste, or quality to

Spelling Note

See -or ¹.

Derived Forms

• ˈflavourless, adjective
• ˈflavourer, noun
• ˈflavoursome, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of flavour¹

C14: from Old French flaour , from Late Latin flātor (unattested) bad smell, breath, from Latin flāre to blow

Example Sentences

So there is nothing that starts with ‘Take 17 litres of stock…’ Everything in there is about flavour.

From The Daily Beast

There seemed the flavour of some strange authority in her that baffled all approach to the former intimacy.

From Project Gutenberg

The time passed along quickly; the coffee was excellent, the cigars soft and of the nutty flavour he loved.

From Project Gutenberg

To detect the flavour of an olive is no less a piece of human perfection than to find beauty in the colours of the sunset.

From Project Gutenberg

John Dory pulled at his cigar appreciatively, sniffed its flavour for a moment, and then leaned forward in his chair.

From Project Gutenberg

There was often a brusqueness in her comings and goings, but she usually left a flavour of herself behind.

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