Other forms: savoring, savored, savors
To savor is to enjoy something slowly, tasting every moment. Savor the meal, savor the victory, savor every minute.
It is deliberate attention to something pleasant, which is why it applies to victories and moments as readily as to food. This is the American spelling; British writing keeps the u in savour. Note savory, which in America is the word for the salty rather than sweet, spelled savoury in Britain.
1verbsavorTo enjoy something slowly, tasting every moment.
“He savored every spoonful of his grandmother's soup.”
savor is an enjoying.
Also accepted in games: savour, relish
Proto-Indo-European
*seh₁p-
Proto-Indo-European
*sep- — to taste; to try out
Latin
sapor
Old French
saveur
Anglo-Norman
saveur
Middle English
savour
English
savour
English, today
savor
Built from
savour comes from Middle English savour, from Anglo-Norman saveur, savor, savour, and Old French saveur, savor, savour (modern French saveur), from Latin sapor, from sapiō (“to taste of (something); to have a flavour”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European sep- (“to taste; to try out”)) + -or. a doublet of sapor.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA