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flavour

[ fley-ver ]

noun

Chiefly British.


flavour

/ ˈڱɪə /

noun

  1. taste perceived in food or liquid in the mouth
  2. a substance added to food, etc, to impart a specific taste
  3. a distinctive quality or atmosphere; suggestion

    a poem with a Shakespearean flavour

  4. a type or variety

    various flavours of graphical interface

  5. physics a property of quarks that enables them to be differentiated into six types: up, down, strange, charm, bottom (or beauty), and top (or truth)
  6. flavour of the month
    a person or thing that is the most popular at a certain time
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to impart a flavour, taste, or quality to
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Spelling Note

See -or 1.
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Derived Forms

  • ˈڱdzܰ, adjective
  • ˈڱdzܰ, noun
  • ˈڱdzܰdz, adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of flavour1

C14: from Old French flaour , from Late Latin ڱٴǰ (unattested) bad smell, breath, from Latin ڱ to blow
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Example Sentences

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Before then, in Rome these in-between days have taken on a flavour of their own.

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"We're bringing a lot of new flavours to the table, but of course we're all in love with the original material, so we've been faithful to our cast of characters," she said.

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While he admits he still hates the flavour of peanuts, he says knowing he can now eat something that once sent his body into "nuclear meltdown" has changed his life.

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Six years after Porto the technique used to forge a team had a South American flavour, but the outcome was the same.

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On a roll, Miyo Aoetsu - who started baking as a hobby - has now won the prize for the second time after her green loaf flavoured with matcha, white chocolate and fruit scooped the 2023 gong.

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