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

The price list shows he's charging £10 for a bottle of "special mixed flavour", or £20 for "pure concentrated THC".

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She said the relatively cool climate means Vale Vineyard's award-winning wine is "fruit forward" with "lots of different flavours coming out on the palate".

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Then there is the stereotype, dubbed the Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, a partly xenophobic myth that the food can make people feel sick because of supposedly high concentration of additives, particularly the flavouring agent MSG.

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These energy and flavoured drinks are proving highly successful in France and around the world.

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Trading Standards said they were concerned about products with a "worrying child appeal" as well as flavours and "eye-catching packaging" that mimicked sweets.

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