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

But in researching 2017's "The Flavour of Spice," Reshii encountered some details even she wasn't expecting.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2023

Flavour also needs adding back in, which normally means salt, sugar and fats.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2021

I was trying to recapture what was wrong with so much recipe writing before How to Eat when my eye fell on Passion for Flavour by Gordon Ramsay, first published in 1996.

From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2018

Wear your best wizard robe for a costume contest, sip a butterbeer and win some famous Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans in a trivia contest.

From Washington Post • Jul. 25, 2016

Flavour to taste, pour it over the rabbits, and serve.

From The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Muskett, Philip E.