flavor
noun
- way something tastes
- additive to adjust taste
verb
- add flavoring agent
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈfleɪvə/ / /ˈfleɪvɚ/ / /ˈflæɪvə/
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Italic *flāōder. Latin flō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin flātor Vulgar Latin *flātorder. Old French flaorbor. Middle English savourinflu. Middle English flavour English flavor From Middle English flavour meaning “smell, odour”, usually pleasing, borrowed from Old French flaour (“smell, odour”) (cfr. Sicilian ciàguru, its etymology and semantic), from Vulgar Latin *flātor (“odour, that which blows”), from Latin flātor (“blower”), from flō, flāre (“to blow, puff”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”). Doublet of blow and bleat.
- The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
“The flavor of this apple pie is delicious.”
- Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.
“Flavor was added to the pudding.”
- A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc).
“What flavor of bubble gum do you most enjoy?”
“My favorite flavor of lip balm is called mystical minty camomile.”
- The characteristic quality of something.
“the flavor of an experience”
“I'd like to read from a pair of letters that we got recently at GCN to give you the flavor of the issues gay prisoners have to deal with.”
- A kind or type.
“Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.”
- Style.
“Who brings the flavor? / That's me, that's me / Who brings the flavor? / That's me. I got it”
- One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
- The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
“the flavor of a rose”
“It was damp, it was not free from dry rot, there was a flavour of rats in it, and it was the gloomy victim of that indescribable decay which settles on all the work of man’s hands whenever it’s not turned to man’s account.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Italic *flāōder. Latin flō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin flātor Vulgar Latin *flātorder. Old French flaorbor. Middle English savourinflu. Middle English flavour English flavor From Middle English flavour meaning “smell, odour”, usually pleasing, borrowed from Old French flaour (“smell, odour”) (cfr. Sicilian ciàguru, its etymology and semantic), from Vulgar Latin *flātor (“odour, that which blows”), from Latin flātor (“blower”), from flō, flāre (“to blow, puff”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”). Doublet of blow and bleat.
- To add flavoring to something.