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flavor.

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

6 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈfleɪvə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈfleɪvɚ/Canada, General-American/ˈflæɪvə/Australia, New-Zealand
  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. Flavoring, a substance used to produce a taste.

    US · countable · uncountable
    Flavor was added to the pudding.
  3. 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?
    My favorite flavor of lip balm is called mystical minty camomile.
  4. The characteristic quality of something.

    US · countable · uncountable
    the flavor of an experience
  5. A kind or type.

    US · countable · figuratively · informal · uncountable
    Debian is one flavor of the Linux operating system.
  6. Style.

    US · countable · slang · uncountable
  7. 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
  8. The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.

    US · archaic · countable · uncountable
    the flavor of a rose
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Italic *flāōder. Latin flō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin flātor Vulgar Latin *flātorder. Old French flaorbor. Middle English savourinflu. Middle English flavour English flavor 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.

verb/ˈfleɪvə/Received-Pronunciation/ˈfleɪvɚ/Canada, General-American/ˈflæɪvə/Australia, New-Zealand
  1. To add flavoring to something.

    US · transitive
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *-eh₁- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-der. Proto-Italic *flāōder. Latin flō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin flātor Vulgar Latin *flātorder. Old French flaorbor. Middle English savourinflu. Middle English flavour English flavor 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.

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