flavour
English
Alternative forms
- flavor (US)
Etymology
Middle English meaning "smell, odor", usually pleasing, from Old French flaour (“smell, odor”), from Vulgar Latin flator (“odor, that which blows”), from Latin flator (“blower”), from flare (“to blow, puff”)
Pronunciation
Noun
flavour (plural flavours) (British)
- The quality produced by the sensation of taste.
- The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.
- A substance used to produce a taste. Flavouring.
- Flavour was added to the pudding.
- A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
- What flavour of bubble gum do you enjoy?
- The characteristic quality of something.
- the flavour of an experience
- (informal) A kind or type.
- Debian is one flavour of the Linux operating system.
- (physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
Translations
the quality produced by the sensation of taste
a substance used to produce a taste
a variety (of taste)
a type of something
in physics, the types of quarks or leptons
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Verb
flavour (third-person singular simple present flavours, present participle flavouring, simple past and past participle flavoured)
- (transitive) To add flavouring to something.
Translations
to add flavouring to something