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

Chef Aiman can also optimise menus and balance flavours, according to the establishment.

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But in this case, the acronym stands for Honey Banana Mat -- Korean for "flavour".

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The existing tax, which mainly applies to fizzy drinks, will be applied to bottles and cartons of milk-based drinks, including milkshakes, flavoured milk, milk substitute drinks and lattes, adding a few pence to their cost.

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"As my wife says, which I love, 'If this life is the flavour, as soon as I'm done, give me another scoop'", Glover told the crowd on Saturday after revealing his medical struggles.

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On the menu today is spaghetti served with canned vegetables and tomato sauce and flavoured with generous handfuls of spices.

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