Flavor

//ˈfleɪvə// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. US, countable, uncountable

    "The flavor of this apple pie is delicious."

  2. 2
    the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth wordnet
  3. 3
    Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste. US, countable, uncountable

    "Flavor was added to the pudding."

  4. 4
    (physics) the six kinds of quarks wordnet
  5. 5
    A variety (of taste) attributed to an object (food, candy, chewing gum, medicine, etc). US, countable, uncountable

    "What flavor of bubble gum do you most enjoy?"

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  1. 6
    the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people wordnet
  2. 7
    The characteristic quality of something. US, countable, uncountable

    "the flavor of an experience"

  3. 8
    A kind or type. US, countable, figuratively, informal, uncountable

    "Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system."

  4. 9
    Style. US, countable, slang, uncountable

    "Who brings the flavor? / That's me, that's me / Who brings the flavor? / That's me. I got it"

  5. 10
    One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon). US, countable, particle, uncountable
  6. 11
    The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance. US, archaic, countable, uncountable

    "the flavor of a rose"

Verb
  1. 1
    To add flavoring to something. US, transitive
  2. 2
    lend flavor to wordnet

Synonyms

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relishseasonspiritaftertasteairambiance

Example

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"Korean food is noted for its spicy flavor."

Etymology

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.

Related phrases

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