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. 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.

Other Word Forms

• flavourless adjective
• flavourer noun
• flavoursome 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

Marketed as quick relief for sore throats and stubborn coughs, these sweet syrups mix sugar, colour and flavouring with a cocktail of antihistamines, decongestants, expectorants.

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She's just dropped Fort Knox, her second single from the record, which she says gives a flavour of that energy.

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E. coli is the field's main "workhorse" says Prof Wallace, who has also genetically engineered it in the lab to turn plastic waste into vanilla flavour and fatberg waste from sewers into perfume.

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Great British Chefs specified that tonka’s “most distinctive feature” is their “enormous potency — heady vanilla flavours, with oily clove aromas, and perfumed magnolia, sandalwood notes.”

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Saturday's heats gave a flavour of what is to come, with a series of statement performances igniting the sell-out crowd at Japan's National Stadium.

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