Other forms: flavors
Flavor is the particular way a food tastes. A strong flavor, add flavor, three flavors of ice cream.
This is the American spelling; British English writes flavour. Most of what people call flavor is actually smell — block your nose and an apple and an onion are hard to tell apart. Flavoring is added to produce it artificially. Figuratively, flavor means the character of something: the flavor of the place, flavor of the month, meaning briefly fashionable. Note flavorful and flavorless.
1nounflavorThe particular way a food tastes.
“The flavor comes almost entirely from the smoke.”
Patterna strong / rich / delicate flavor · flavor of + noun · full of flavor · add / bring out flavor · flavour (British)
synonyms: flavour, taste
2nouncharacterThe particular character of something.
“The whole street has a flavor you do not find elsewhere.”
flavor is a taste or character.
Also accepted in games: flavour
It first meant a smell, and it still mostly is: hold your nose and the soup loses half its flavour.
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Old French flaour meant a smell, from a Latin word about blowing. The word meant odour for centuries before it meant taste, which is scientifically closer to the truth than the modern sense.
Middle English
flavour
English, today
flavor
Built from
From Middle English flavour. 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 flo (“to blow, puff”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European bʰleh₁- (“to blow”), from Proto-Indo-European bʰel- (“to make a loud noise”). a doublet of blow and bleat.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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