flavour

American  

[fley-ver] / ˈfleɪ vər /

noun

Chiefly British.

1. flavor.

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flavour British  

/ 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. a person or thing that is the most popular at a certain time

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verb

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

Spelling

See -or ¹.

Other Word Forms

• flavourer noun
• flavourless adjective
• flavoursome adjective

Etymology

Origin of flavour

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

Example Sentences

Cake fillings of almond crunch and toasted pecan praline and candied lemon, while jackfruit and palm sugar bring distinct South-East Asian flavours.

From BBC

The humble filled egg is just one of many Easter staples on the shelves that seem to be branching out into all sorts of flavours.

From BBC

"We are in our posts because of the children and hopefully we can give a flavour of the experience to these young people to work with children."

From BBC

It "fails on the actual main goal: creating one true standard across Europe that creates legal certainty for our startups", since it defers legal authority to national courts, "aka 27 flavours of interpretation", it said.

From Barron's

Quarks come in six "flavours": up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom.

From Barron's