flavor
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- flavour (British spelling)
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English flavour meaning “smell, odour”, usually pleasing, borrowed from Old French flaour (“smell, odour”), 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.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfleɪvə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfleɪvɚ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
NounEdit
flavor (countable and uncountable, plural flavors) (American spelling)
- 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.
- A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring.
- Flavor was added to the pudding.
- A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
- What flavor of bubble gum do you enjoy?
- The characteristic quality of something.
- the flavor of an experience
- (informal) A kind or type.
- Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.
- (particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
- (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
- the flavor of a rose
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
the quality produced by the sensation of taste
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a substance used to produce a taste
a variety (of taste)
the characteristic quality of something
a type of something
in physics, the types of quarks or leptons
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VerbEdit
flavor (third-person singular simple present flavors, present participle flavoring, simple past and past participle flavored)
- (American spelling, transitive) To add flavoring to something.
TranslationsEdit
to add flavoring to something
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Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
flavor
- Alternative form of flavour