flavor

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English

Alternative forms

• flavour (British spelling)

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfleɪvə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfleɪvɚ/
• Rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)

Noun

flavor (countable and uncountable, plural flavors) (American spelling)

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

2. Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.

3. A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.

4. The characteristic quality of something.
5. (informal) A kind or type.

6. (hip-hop slang) Style.
7. (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).
8. (archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.

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Verb

flavor (third-person singular simple present flavors, present participle flavoring, simple past and past participle flavored)

1. (American spelling, transitive) To add flavoring to something.

Derived terms

• flavor up

Translations

See also

• gustatory
• gustation

Further reading

• “flavor n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

Middle English

Noun

flavor

1. Alternative form of flavour