flavour

[ fley-ver ]

/ ˈfleɪ vər /

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noun Chiefly British.

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usage note for flavour

See -or¹.

Words nearby flavour

flavorist, flavor of the month, flavorous, flavorsome, flavory, flavour, flavour enhancer, flavourful, flavouring, flaw, flawed

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How to use flavour in a sentence

So there is nothing that starts with ‘Take 17 litres of stock…’ Everything in there is about flavour.
Tom Parker Bowles on Camilla's Roast Chicken, His Cocaine Sting and Those Pictures of Kate|Tom Sykes|October 3, 2012|DAILY BEAST
There seemed the flavour of some strange authority in her that baffled all approach to the former intimacy.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
The time passed along quickly; the coffee was excellent, the cigars soft and of the nutty flavour he loved.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood
To detect the flavour of an olive is no less a piece of human perfection than to find beauty in the colours of the sunset.
The Pocket R.L.S.|Robert Louis Stevenson

John Dory pulled at his cigar appreciatively, sniffed its flavour for a moment, and then leaned forward in his chair.
The Double Four|E. Phillips Oppenheim
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

taste perceived in food or liquid in the mouth

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

a distinctive quality or atmosphere; suggestiona poem with a Shakespearean flavour

a type or varietyvarious flavours of graphical interface

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)

flavour of the month a person or thing that is the most popular at a certain time

verb

(tr) to impart a flavour, taste, or quality to

Derived forms of flavour

flavourer or US flavorer, nounflavourless or US flavorless, adjectiveflavoursome or US flavorsome, adjective

Word Origin for flavour

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

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