flavour

[ fley-ver ]

nounChiefly British.

usage note For flavour

See -or1.

Words Nearby flavour

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How to use flavour in a sentence

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

    Hilda | Sarah Jeanette Duncan

British Dictionary definitions for flavour

flavour

US flavor

/ (ˈfleɪvə) /


noun
  1. taste perceived in food or liquid in the mouth

  2. a substance added to food, etc, to impart a specific taste

  1. a distinctive quality or atmosphere; suggestion: a poem with a Shakespearean flavour

  2. a type or variety: various flavours of graphical interface

  3. 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)

  4. 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

Origin of flavour

1
C14: from Old French flaour, from Late Latin flātor (unattested) bad smell, breath, from Latin flāre to blow

Derived forms of flavour

  • flavourer or US flavorer, noun
  • flavourless or US flavorless, adjective
  • flavoursome or US flavorsome, adjective

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